to cohere
3
6.2
- verb
- /koʊˈhɪr/
:
cohesionar
- Her arguments didn't cohere, leaving the audience confused about her main point.
- make the paragraph cohere
- parts cohere
There is no way that a democratic system can cohere without that.
- There is no way that a democratic system can cohere without that.
- Finally, it is all related, but it does not cohere.
- And with that, no culture can cohere.
- What I sense in the early years was, was an attempt to cohere a religion that was very much in danger of disappearing.
- And then it, you know, it coheres again.
- Slowly but surely, all those cognitive processes start to get cohered into the structure of the heart.
- It's a self cohered, self organized system of of of plasma.
- So, and they, they kind of cohere with each other, but in a way that doesn't mean a damn thing.
Examples
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When planning the event, it is important for all the details to cohere for a seamless experience.
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The stories of Six Problems nevertheless cohere to produce the dialectics of sense required by the detective genre.
Academic text (1994) -
In these cases, religion provides the identity that makes a community cohere and links it with a particular place.
Academic text (1996) -
Or will it beat the odds and cohere into something that looks like democracy?
Blog text (19) -
The landscape is additionally a mass whose parts cohere and relate, but in obfuscated ways.
Academic text (2016) -
Say we've shown that a people can endure awful sacrifice and yet cohere.
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Moreover, art is meant to cohere with the other "cutting-edge" models of reality provided by the various contemporaneous disciplines.
Academic text (2000) -
Rather, it is the idea of Palestine, ironically the absence of a physical place, that coheres a Palestinian national identity.
Academic text (1996) -
There are a few passages in Bolzano's writings that seem to cohere with these corollaries, especially with the second one.
Academic text (2016) -
The inclusive social ethic of Caritas and the synod coheres with a theology in which salvation touches people in many faiths.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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2.1
To join people or things into one group for a shared purpose
769
1.0
To attach something to a surface or push it into with a point
278
1.1
Join two things so they form one piece
240
2.1
To hold on tightly to someone or something and not let go
90
3.4
Keep parts or people joined and working as one
65
3.7
To bring people or things together into one group
50
3.4
Gather people or things and organize them to reach a goal
17
5.2
To stick firmly to a surface such as glass or plastic
15
4.1
To join parts so they fit tightly and move together
11
6.7
To fit things together so they work well and match
10
4.7
Fit well together so they work without problems
9
3.0
To join people, places, or things so they become connected
7
7.5
To stay very close to someone or something, often for support
4
7.4
To join several groups or parts to make one
4
3.9
To join so closely that two things become one, for example plants or bones
2
4.6
To fit together so the parts make sense as a whole
2
3.9
Make people or groups work closely together as one
To fit together like gears so parts touch and work together
To join parts together by weaving or tangling
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Etymology
Cohere comes from the Latin parts co- meaning 'together' and haerere meaning 'to stick'. Think of words like adhere or adhesive, which also mean 'to stick', so to cohere is to stick or fit together as one whole, whether in things or in ideas.