cohere
cohere
Definition
co·here (kō hir′)
intransitive verb cohered -·hered′, cohering -·her′·ing
- to stick together, as parts of a mass
- to be united by molecular cohesion
- to be connected naturally or logically, as by a common principle; be consistent
- to become or stay united in action; be in accord
Etymology: L cohaerere < co-, together + haerere, to stick
cohere
Synonyms
cohere
v.
cohere
Usage Examples
Preposition: on
- basis: John Locke No society can cohere on this basis.
Preposition: into
- something: Usually this process of organization takes several drafts before it finally coheres into something that is well-structured.
Modifying Another Word
- not: Another risk is that the network will not cohere.
- together: In Him they all cohere together in unity like a great equation of life and being.
- all: But there is a moment where it all coheres and all three of us are firing at once.
- n't: To use an expression of Coleridge's " they are like marbles in a bag; they touch but they do n't cohere " .
- nevertheless: Varied and wide ranging, they nevertheless cohere around a core of shared themes.
- positively: For a belief to positively cohere it must in some way be supported or made probable by the doxastic system with which it coheres.
Preposition: in
- manner: It is idle to ask why Greenwich should not cohere in this spiritual manner while Athens or Sparta did.
Preposition: with
Browse dictionary entries near cohere
- coheiress
- coheir
- Cohan
- cohabitation
- cohabitant
- cohabit
- cogwheel
- COGS
- cogon
- cognovit clause
- cohered
- coherence
- coherency
- coherent
- coherently
- cohering
- cohesion
- cohesive
- cohesively
- cohesiveness
