資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Consolidated \Con*sol"i*da`ted\, p. p. & a.
   1. Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified.

            The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great
            variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties
            which were [in 1715] consolidated.    --Rees.

            A mass of partially consolidated mud. --Tyndall.

   2. (Bot.) Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in
      the cactus.

            Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and
            designed for very dry regions; in such only they are
            found.                                --Gray.

   {The Consolidated Fund}, a British fund formed by
      consolidating (in 1787) three public funds (the Aggregate
      Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816,
      the larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and
      Ireland was assigned to what has been known as the
      Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, out of which are
      paid the interest of the national debt, the salaries of
      the civil list, etc.

Consolidate \Con*sol"i*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Consolidated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consolidating}.]
   1. To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact
      mass; to harden or make dense and firm.

            He fixed and consolidated the earth.  --T. Burnet.

   2. To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body;
      to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to
      consolidate the armies of the republic.

            Consolidating numbers into unity.     --Wordsworth.

   3. (Surg.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of
      a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [R.]

   Syn: To unite; combine; harden; compact; condense; compress.

資料來源 : WordNet®

consolidated
     adj 1: joined together into a whole; "United Industries"; "the
            amalgamated colleges constituted a university"; "a
            consolidated school" [syn: {amalgamate}, {amalgamated},
             {coalesced}, {fused}]
     2: forming a solid mass