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Cling
Answer for the clue "Cling ", 6 letters:
cohere
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To stick together physically, by adhesion or figuratively by common purpose. 2 To be consistent as part of a group.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Latin cohaerere "to cleave together," in transferred use, "be coherent or consistent," from com- "together" (see co- ) + haerere "to stick" (see hesitation ). Related: Cohered ; cohering .
Usage examples of cohere.
Nothing coheres in him -- either in his opinions, or, I fear, his affections.
Holt said, "that the 'Reen believe simple light can actually be cohered into a laser.
These cohered to form a tough membrane through which we could see absolutely nothing.
If dissension infests this entity which others call Asx, can a society of individuals cohere any better?
In this way therefore then the light and expansive ether with its now cohering body swept round and arched itself on all sides and expanding widely in all directions round in this way fenced all other things in with its greedy grasp.
The old woman was the nucleus the others were gradually cohering around.
Whichever was true, he felt insignificant in the presence of these cohering shapes.
Intangible individually, in the mass they formed something through which I could not pass, cohering by a means I didn't understand.
I look out the window to see the sky, but there is only the rock wall in the moonlight and the slowly cohering shadow character of the Buddha's name, the three vertical strokes like ink on slate-colored vellum, the three horizontal strokes flowing around and together, making three white faces in the negative spaces, three faces staring at me in the dark.