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Definition of Cohere
1. Verb. Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation. "The sushi rice grains cohere"
Generic synonyms: Adjoin, Contact, Meet, Touch
Specialized synonyms: Mold, Conglutinate, Agglutinate
Entails: Attach
Related verbs: Adhere, Bind, Bond, Hold Fast, Stick, Stick To, Stick
Derivative terms: Adherent, Adhesion, Coherence, Coherency, Coherent, Cohesion, Cohesive
2. Verb. Cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole. "Religion can cohere social groups"
3. Verb. Have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results. "The principles by which societies cohere"
Definition of Cohere
1. v. i. To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
Definition of Cohere
1. Verb. To stick together physically, by adhesion or figuratively by common purpose. ¹
2. Verb. To be consistent as part of a group. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cohere
1. to stick together [v -HERED, -HERING, -HERES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cohere
Literary usage of Cohere
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"... to shave, cut, L. ¡cohere, to scratch, scrape, Gk. a«airr(iv, to dig. (^ SKAP.)
Shaw, thicket. (E.) AS л-а?а. ..."
2. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1859)
"... and overcome the attraction by which they cohere (as sundry menstrua can) will
make the solid become a fluid, as well as fire, yet without heating it ..."
3. The Apocalypse Revealed: Wherein are Disclosed the Arcana There Foretold by Emanuel Swedenborg (1855)
"... which the Lord alone knows. they who are now mentioned are such as constitute
the external church, and cohere as one with the above recited, ..."
4. The Rocks of Cape Colville Peninsula, Auckland, New Zealand by William Johnson Sollas, Alexander McKay (1906)
"The rock readily decomposes, and in this state appears to be formed of light-grey
crystals, which cohere as a somewhat soft rock, or separate into ..."
5. An Epitome of Braithwaite's Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery by Walter S. Wells, William Braithwaite (1860)
"This powder may either be used as it u or made to cohere into a sort of ointment
by olive oil, when it may be spread on lint and used as a dressing. ..."
6. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Cleave, vn I. Adhere, cohere, stick, hold, cling, be attached, united, or joined.
3. Remain devoted to, be devoted to, be true to, cling. 2. ..."
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