cohere
English
Alternative forms
- cohære (rare)
Etymology
From the Latin cohaereō (“I cohere, I cling (closely) together, I harmonise, I am consistent (with), I am in agreement with”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊˈhɪə/
- (US) IPA(key): /koʊˈhɪɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Verb
cohere (third-person singular simple present coheres, present participle cohering, simple past and past participle cohered)
- (intransitive) To stick together physically, by adhesion.
- Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.
- 2018 July 19, Zoe Williams, “Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan”, in The Guardian:
- Nothing coheres the way you expect. Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.
- Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.
- 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, OCLC 1167534396:
- That dream of beautiful Paris was not likely to cohere into substance in the presence of this misfortune.
- (transitive, figuratively) To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.
- This division suggests that Khamenei is not playing his usual role of cohering the regime during a crisis.
- 2022 October 2, “Iran Crisis Update, October 2”, in Iran Project, Institute for the Study of War:
Derived terms
- decohere
Related terms
- adhere
- coherence
- coherent
- cohesion
- cohesive
- inhere
Translations
to stick together
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to be consistent as part of a group
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Anagrams
- cheero, choree, echoer, re-echo, reecho
Latin
Verb
cohērē
- second-person singular present active imperative of cohēreō