Dictionary Definition
cohere
Verb
1 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]
2 cause to form a united, orderly, and
aethestically consistent whole; "Religion can cohere social
groups"
3 have internal elements or parts logically
connected so that aesthetic consistency results; "the principles by
which societies cohere"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Alternative spellings
Verb
- To stick together
physically, by
adhesion or figuratively by common
purpose.
- Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.
- To be consistent as part of a group.
- Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.
Translations
- Japanese:
- 密着する ( micchaku suru ): To stick together physically
- 凝集する ( gyoushū suru ): For molecules, to stick together physically
- 結集する ( kesshū suru ): To stick together figuratively by common purpose
- 首尾一貫している ( shubi ikkan shite iru ), 矛盾していない ( mujun shite inai ): To be consistent as part of a group
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accord,
adhere, agglomerate, agree, answer to, assent, associate, assort with, be
consistent, be of one, be uniform with, blend, bunch, check, check out, chime, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, cluster, coagulate, coalesce, coincide, combine, come together, communicate, comport, concur, conform, conform with, congeal, conglomerate, connect, consist with, converge, cooperate, correspond, dovetail, embrace, fall in together, fit
in, fit together, freeze to, fuse, go, go together, go with, grasp, grow together, hang on,
hang together, harmonize, hit, hold, hold on, hold together,
hug, intercommunicate,
interlock, intersect, jibe, join, knit, lock, mass, match, meet, merge, overlap, parallel, persist, register, register with,
respond to, set, sing in
chorus, solidify, sort
with, square, square
with, stand together, stay,
stay put, stick, stick
together, take hold of, tally, unite