adherent

Preposition: of

• religion: I hear the same thing from adherents of all religions.
• faith: Deals with all topical moral issues through the eyes of adherents of the six different faiths.
• view: Dennett is a notable adherent of this view, regarding physicalism as true and holding the very notion of the philosophical zombie incoherent.

Converse of object

• attract: Tho it tries to attract adherents, it describes its claimed benefits in a rather restrained fashion.
• gain: Slowly, we are gaining adherents to our cause.
• win: The attempt to win adherents requires the appeal to the lowest common denominator.
• remain: There are claims that patients should pay in order to give value to treatment and remain adherent to the drugs.
• become: They became firm adherents of the House of Lancaster.
• find: Sidwell's views as a whole will, I believe, find few adherents.

Adjective modifier

• loyal: Cricket, say the most loyal adherents, is a game to savor.
• faithful: Its assumptions are fundamentalist principles of which he is himself a faithful adherent.
• strict: For the conductors among you, Management skills are a must these days - I am a strict adherent to the Dilbert principles!
• religious: The Netherlands comes top of the league, where 42 % are religious adherents, with Britain second.
• close: Their leaders promote a strict interpretation of the Qur'an and close adherents to its teachings.

Modifies a noun

• dressing: Depending upon the volume of exudate produced, this can be foam, film, or low adherent dressings.
• goodwill: It might therefore be divisible into two kinds: adherent free goodwill and separable free goodwill.
• coating: My Ph.D. is focused on two new processes, Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation ( PEO ) and laser cladding that produce strongly adherent coatings.
• tissue: If there is tension: Free off more adherent tissue from the bowel.

Modifying Another Word

• strongly: Slough The term for the viscous yellow layer which often covers the wound and is strongly adherent to it.