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/

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Verb

cohere (third-person singular simple present coheres, present participle cohering, simple past and past participle cohered)

1. (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^[1]:

     Nothing coheres the way you expect. Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender.

2. (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.

3. (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^[2], Institute for the Study of War:

Derived terms

• decohere

Related terms

• adhere
• coherence
• coherent
• cohesion
• cohesive
• inhere

Translations

to stick together

• Bulgarian: прилепвам (bg) (prilepvam)
• Catalan: cohesionar (ca)
• French: s'attirer (fr), attirer (fr), se cohérer (fr)
• German: aneinanderhaften, aneinanderkleben, binden (de), ein Ganzes bilden, eine Einheit bilden
• Latin: cohaereō
• Spanish: cohesionar (es)
• Turkish: birbirine yapışmak, birbirini tutmak

to be consistent as part of a group

• Bulgarian: съгласувам се (sǎglasuvam se)
• German: in sich geschlossen sein, zusammenhängen (de)
• Spanish: ser coherente
• Turkish: bağlantılı olmak, tutarlı olmak, uyuşmak (tr)

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• 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

Anagrams

• cheero, choree, echoer, re-echo, reecho

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Latin

Verb

cohērē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cohēreō