Crossword clues for cohere
cohere
- Stick in this place with commanding officer
- Stick around to get love present
- Fit together sides of house in central area
- Leaders of harsh extremists in central region hang together
- Resist separation
- Business woman’s hope finally to stick together
- Business in this place, form a close association
- Hold water, so to speak
- Hang together
- Form a whole
- Stick but good
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cohere \Co*here"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cohered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cohering.] [L. cohaerere, cohaesum; co- + haerere to stick, adhere. See Aghast, a.]
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To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together.
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To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent.
They have been inserted where they best seemed to cohere.
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To suit; to agree; to fit. [Obs.]
Had time cohered with place, or place with wishing.
--Shak.Syn: To cleave; unite; adhere; stick; suit; agree; fit; be consistent.
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.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To stick together physically, by adhesion or figuratively by common purpose. 2 To be consistent as part of a group.
WordNet
v. come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere" [syn: cling, cleave, adhere, stick]
cause to form a united, orderly, and aethestically consistent whole; "Religion can cohere social groups"
have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results; "the principles by which societies cohere"
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.