cohesive

See also: cohésive

English

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cohesive (comparative more cohesive, superlative most cohesive)

Having cohesion.
- 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman‎^[1]:
  Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.

having cohesion

Bulgarian: свързващ (bg) (svǎrzvašt), зацепващ (bg) (zacepvašt)
Catalan: cohesiu
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: soudržný (cs)
Finnish: yhdistävä (fi)
German: zusammenhängend (de)
Greek: συνεκτικός (el) m (synektikós)
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Indonesian: kohesif (id)
Malay: jeleket, kohesif
Portuguese: coeso (pt)
Romanian: coerent (ro), coeziv
Russian: свя́занный (ru) (svjázannyj), сплочённый (ru) (spločónnyj) (close-knit)
Spanish: cohesivo (es)
Swedish: sammanhängande (sv)
Turkish: bağlı (tr), yapışık (tr), yapışkan (tr)

cohesive (plural cohesives)

A substance that provides cohesion
- 2001, Doris Banowsky Arrington, Home is Where the Art Is‎^[2], →ISBN:
  
  The thesaurus (Chapman, 1977) lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods.
- 2012, Lens Diseases—Advances in Research and Treatment: 2012 Edition‎^[3], →ISBN:
  
  Direct comparison meta-analysis showed that viscoadaptives lead to a lower loss in cell density compared with very low viscosity dispersives, and compared with super viscous cohesives.
(linguistics) A device used to establish cohesion within a text
- 1988, Michael R. Walrod, Normative Discourse and Persuasion: An Analysis of Gaʹdang ...‎^[4]:
  
  The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT.