Interview vs Consult - What's the difference?
interview | consult |
(obsolete) An official face-to-face meeting of monarchs or other important figures.
*, II.2.4:
Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official nature.
A conversation in person (or, by extension, over the telephone, Internet etc.) between a journalist and someone whose opinion or statements he or she wishes to record for publication, broadcast etc.
A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant.
A police interrogation of a suspect or party in an investigation.
To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview.
To be interviewed; to attend an interview.
* 2000 , U.S. News and World Report: Volume 129, Issues 18-25
(obsolete): The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consultation; determination; decision.
(obsolete): A council; a meeting for consultation.
(obsolete): Agreement; concert.
(US): A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.
To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
To advise or offer expertise.
To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary.
To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
(obsolete): To deliberate upon; to take for.
(obsolete): To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
In obsolete terms the difference between interview and consult
is that interview is an official face-to-face meeting of monarchs or other important figures while consult is : Agreement; concert.interview
English
(wikipedia interview)Noun
(en noun)- To be present at an interview , as that famous of Henry the Eighth and Francis the First, so much renowned all over Europe […], no age ever saw the like.
- The reporter gave the witness an interview .
- It was a dreadful interview ; I have no hope of getting the job.
Derived terms
* exit interviewVerb
(en verb)- He interviewed the witness.
- The witness was interviewed .
- When she interviewed with Microsoft in August, she overlooked a small cut in salary and asked about long-term career opportunities — and quality of life.
Derived terms
* (l)References
* * ----consult
English
Alternative forms
* consultation (Only noun form in UK)Noun
(en noun)- The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. -.
- A consult of coquettes. -.
Usage notes
* The noun consult is avoided in British English, favoring consultation instead. In AmE, they are merely synonyms.Synonyms
* consultationVerb
(en verb)- Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. -
- All the laws of England have been made by the kings of England, consulting with the nobility and commons. - .
- Men forgot, or feared, to consult''' ... ; they were content to '''consult libraries. - .
- We are ... to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. -L'Estrange.
- Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. -.
- Thou hast consulted shame to thy use by cutting off many people. - Bible, Heb. ii. 10.
