All 36 Uses
console
in
Ready Player One
(Edited)
- A 21-inch Zenith television sits nearby, with an Atari 2600 game console hooked up to it.
p. 4.8console = a small, specialized computer system with ports to connect video, etc.
- This usually wasn't a problem, because I had a talent for finding and fixing old computers and busted OASIS consoles, which I sold to pawnshops or traded for food vouchers.
p. 19.3consoles = small, specialized computer systema with ports to connect video, etc.
- I fixed her ancient OASIS console whenever it went on the fritz, and in return, she answered my endless questions about what it had been like for her to grow up during the 1980s.
p. 23.6console = a small, specialized computer system with ports to connect video, etc.
- Inside were my school-issued OASIS console, haptic gloves, and visor.
p. 25.9
- Then I grabbed my OASIS console, a flat black rectangle about the size of a paperback book.
p. 26.1 *
- I plugged it into a port on the side of the console, then slipped on my visor.
p. 26.3
- I powered on the console and initiated the log-in sequence.
p. 26.5
- And that was with my crappy school-issued OASIS console.
p. 27.3
- A vintage RCA television stood in the center of the room, hooked up to a Betamax VCR, a LaserDisc player, and several vintage videogame consoles.
p. 37.8consoles = small, specialized computer systema with ports to connect video, etc.
- I shoved a new cartridge into the Intellivision console and started up a singleplayer game of Astrosmash.
p. 40.8console = a small, specialized computer system with ports to connect video, etc.
- If that happened, I would have to return my school-issued OASIS console and visor.
p. 51.5
- Halliday and Morrow referred to the OASIS as an "open-source reality," a malleable online universe that anyone could access via the Internet, using their existing home computer or videogame console.
p. 57.5
- Classic arcade coin-ops, home computer, console, and handheld.
p. 64.3
- My OASIS console tracked this movement and attempted to make my avatar drop to the floor of my Latin classroom, but the classroom conduct software prevented it from moving and a warning flashed on my display: PLEASE REMAIN SEATED DURING CLASS!
p. 69.2
- During one of these breaks, I tried to access a copy of the movie from my OASIS console's hard drive, with the intention of playing it in a window on my display so I could refer to it.
p. 111.9
- I grabbed my OASIS console and powered it on, then pulled on my visor and gloves.
p. 148.1
- My school-issued OASIS console, visor, and gloves.
p. 163.2
- The crown jewel in my rig was, of course, my customized OASIS console.
p. 191.7
- The Bifrost track was another stand-alone simulation, one of several hundred track designs stored on my console's hard drive.
p. 197.5
- When I finished voting, I adjusted my haptic chair slightly and studied the command console in front of me.
p. 201.6
- Now I worked forty hours a week, helping morons reboot their OASIS consoles and update the drivers for their haptic gloves.
p. 206.7consoles = small, specialized computer systema with ports to connect video, etc.
- By that era, home videogame consoles had already made most coin-op games obsolete.
p. 218.4
- There were exhibits devoted to all of GSS's most popular games, including several arcade ports of titles they'd originally released for home computers and consoles.
p. 219.1
- He was dressed in black mourning robes, and his face bore the same inconsolable expression I'd seen when we spoke on the phone.
p. 241.4 *inconsolable = too sad to be comfortedstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconsolable means not and reverses the meaning of consolable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- The OASIS vanished, and my avatar reappeared inside my virtual office, a standalone simulation stored on my console's hard drive.
p. 272.7console = a small, specialized computer system with ports to connect video, etc.
- I opened a console window and keyed in the command word to activate my computer's self-destruct sequence: SHITSTORM.
p. 272.7
- A dude just ahead of me in line actually had a top-of-the-line miniature Sinatro OASIS console concealed inside a prosthetic testicle.
p. 277.7
- The unit's only amenity was the entertainment console—a large, flat touchscreen built into the wall.
p. 281.5
- I lay there for a few minutes, staring at the time readout on my entertainment console out of the corner of my eye.
p. 286.4
- I tapped the entertainment center console's touchscreen.
p. 286.7
- Keeping my eargear camera pointed straight ahead, away from the screen, I pulled up the entertainment console's viewer settings menu, which allowed me to make adjustments to the display's audio and video output: volume and balance, brightness and tint.
p. 288.5
- I pulled off my visor and gloves and opened the maintenance access panel next to the entertainment center console.
p. 296.2
- I slid the data drive into a slot on the front of the OASIS console and smiled as it locked into place.
p. 302.7
- Inside, I could see that his rig had been modified to include several strange components, including an OASIS console modified to look like a vintage Commodore 64.
p. 325.8
- Several rows of buttons were set into the command console in front of me, all labeled in Japanese.
p. 328.4
- Finally, completing the circle, was an OASIS console—connected to the immersion rig in the center of the room.
p. 358.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(console as in: console her grief) to comfort (emotionally)
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(2)
(console as in: plug it into the console) controls or video monitor(s) for electrical equipment; or a cabinet made to hold electronic equipment
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, console can refer to a storage compartment between the bucket seats of a car.