consult

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To seek advice or information of: consult an attorney.
2. v. To refer to: consulted a telephone directory for the number.
3. v. To take into account; consider: consult one's checkbook before making a major purchase.
4. v. To exchange views; confer.
5. v. To work or serve as a consultant: a retired executive who consults for several large companies.
6. n. A consultation, especially one involving physicians.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To ask advice of; seek the opinion of as a guide to one's own judgment; have recourse to for information or instruction: as, to consult a friend, a physician, or a book.
2. To have especial reference or respect to, in judging or acting; consider; regard.
3. To plan, devise, or contrive.
4. . To seek the opinion or advice of another, for the purpose of regulating one's own action or judgment: followed by with.
5. To take counsel together; confer; deliberate in common.
6. n. A meeting for consultation or deliberation; a council.
7. n. The act of consulting; the effect of consultation; determination.

Wiktionary

1. n. obsolete : The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consultation; determination; decision.
2. n. obsolete : A council; a meeting for consultation.
3. n. obsolete : Agreement; concert.
4. n. US : A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.
5. v. intransitive To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
6. v. intransitive To advise or offer expertise.
7. v. intransitive To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
8. v. transitive 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.
9. v. transitive To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
10. v. transitive , (obsolete): To deliberate upon; to take for.
11. v. transitive , (obsolete): To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
2. v. To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to.
3. v. To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider.
4. v. obsolete To deliberate upon; to take for.
5. v. obsolete To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
6. n. obsolete The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision.
7. n. obsolete A council; a meeting for consultation.
8. n. obsolete Agreement; concert.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. have a conference in order to talk something over
2. v. seek information from
3. v. get or ask advice from
4. v. advise professionally