to hang together

Examples

• All

• But all of this hangs together as one composition, with many different voices blended into it.

• When the primary level is stable, the secondary level can grow quite elaborate, and still things can hang together.

  Blog text (16)

• How does it all hang together?

  Academic text (1990)

• So, it seems to me that your arguments do not hang together.

  Blog text (28)

• We do want to see how things fit together, how things hang together, to use the phrase of sellers.

• Do the parts of the new claim hang together in a coherent whole?

  Academic text (2000)

• Each of these developments tends to entail the others such that they hang together as a whole.

  Academic text (1994)

• But if everything hangs together in a vast and all-embracing synthesis, then it is clear that politics and language are as one.

  Academic text (2000)

• James pauses to admire the way the parts of his story "so inseparably and beautifully... seemed to hang together."

  Academic text (1995)

• No one was sure why, but the facts just hang together and support the theory.

Synonyms

C

to connect

vsto hang together

278 1.1

Join two things so they form one piece

is about meaning based unity rather than only physical joining

H

to hold together

vsto hang together

90 3.4

Keep parts or people joined and working as one

emphasizes logical or meaningful joining instead of steady maintenance or stability

K

to knit

vsto hang together

10 3.6

To make people feel close and united

means logical or meaningful unity rather than just strong social bonds

C

to cohere

vsto hang together

3 6.2

To stick together to form one unit, like parts of a machine or ideas in a plan

focuses on logical or meaningful joining rather than physical fitting

K

to knit together

vsto hang together

2 3.9

Make people or groups work closely together as one

focuses on logical or meaningful joining rather than social bonding

C

to cohere into

vsto hang together

1 6.1

To come together and form one clear, organized whole

emphasizes being united by meaning rather than the actual joining process

Antonyms

F

to fall apart

155 2.8

To break into pieces or stop working properly

D

to disintegrate

35 5.8

Fall apart into smaller pieces or stop working together

How Coherent

to hold together

90 3.4

to hang together

2 4.6

to make sense

858 1.4

to go together

38 2.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology