0 to get information or advice from a person, book, etc. with special knowledge on a particular subject: --
1 to get information or advice from a person, esp. an expert, or to look at written material in order to get information: --
[ T ] The committee will consult people in the neighborhood before making a recommendation.
[ T ] If you don’t know the meaning of a word, consult a dictionary.
2 to get information or advice from a person, book, etc. with special knowledge on a particular subject: --
3 to discuss something with someone before you make a decision: --
At that point, they had not consulted the intervention manual for group facilitators.
Almost 40% of interviewees (93/240) indicated that they were consulting about a minor ailment.
The nurse practitioners who were consulted by doctors viewed this as an indication of respect.
The information obtained would be useful to inform doctors and other health professionals of the issues involved when they are consulting for otitis media.
In every community there are personnel (for example, key workers, volunteers, 'community gatekeepers') who are also consulted by its members at times of need.
However, it is clear that the phrase ' we were not consulted ' has a gender component which he fails to recognise.
The clinicians were also consulted about the palliative patients on treatment, in case there was any clinical priority that was not immediately obvious.
The scientist's agent consults its ontology to determine the relationships between the document keywords and the query terms.
