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cohere

verb

co·​here kō-ˈhir How to pronounce cohere (audio)
cohered; cohering

intransitive verb

1
a
: to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass
broadly : stick, adhere
b
: to display cohesion of plant parts
2
: to hold together as a mass of parts that cohere
3
a
: to become united in principles, relationships, or interests
b
: to be logically or aesthetically consistent

transitive verb

: to cause (parts or components) to cohere

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Cohere vs Adhere

When you finish writing a paper, you may feel that it coheres well, since it's sharply focused and all the ideas seem to support each other. When all the soldiers in an army platoon feel like buddies, the platoon has become a cohesive unit. In science class you may learn the difference between cohesion (the tendency of a chemical's molecules to stick together) and adhesion (the tendency of the molecules of two different substances to stick together). Water molecules tend to cohere, so water falls from the sky in drops, not as separate molecules. But water molecules also adhere to molecules of other substances, so raindrops will often cling to the underside of a clothesline for a while before gravity pulls them down.

Synonyms

Choose the Right Synonym for cohere

stick, adhere, cohere, cling, cleave mean to become closely attached.

stick implies attachment by affixing or by being glued together.

couldn't get the label to stick

adhere is often interchangeable with stick but sometimes implies a growing together.

antibodies adhering to a virus

cohere suggests a sticking together of parts so that they form a unified mass.

eggs will make the mixture cohere

cling implies attachment by hanging on with arms or tendrils.

clinging to a capsized boat

cleave stresses strength of attachment.

the wet shirt cleaved to his back

Example Sentences

the account in his journal coheres with the official report of the battle beset by personal animosities, the people of the neighborhood could not cohere into an effective civic association
Recent Examples on the Web And then there’s Skye’s production, filled with disparate elements fixed into mesmerizing abstractions that cohere in their familiarity and mystery. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2022 Madalengoitia creates prints and pastels in which abstract, doodle-like patterns cohere into human subjects. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 July 2022 This might seem counterintuitive, but time is necessary to plan and to cohere as a movement. Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 31 May 2022 Families cohere by keeping histories and telling stories — and conveying what the English have called heirlooms. New York Times, 17 June 2022 The book is a hodgepodge of short, quirky chapters that cohere as a quasi-narrative because Mr. Reilly structures them around his relationship with his father—which wasn’t at all pretty. John Paul Newport, WSJ, 27 May 2022 Event attendees ask why her narrative strands don’t cohere. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2022 With considerable skill, Davies tries to weave these together with various transitional devices — musical, visual, verbal — but the sections don’t cohere. Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022 These details don’t quite cohere into a whole, and the sons (Dane DeHaan and Patrick Schwarzenegger), especially, are thinly drawn. Washington Post, 5 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Latin cohaerēre "to stick together, be in contact with, be connected," from co- co- + haerēre "to be closely attached, stick," going back to a stem *hais-, of obscure origin

First Known Use

1598, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a

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The first known use of cohere was in 1598

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