'Cohere' definitions:
Definition of 'cohere'
From: WordNet
verb
Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere" [syn: cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere]
verb
Cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole; "Religion can cohere social groups"
verb
Have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results; "the principles by which societies cohere"
Definition of 'Cohere'
From: GCIDE
- Cohere \Co*here"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cohered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cohering.] [L. cohaerere, cohaesum; co- + haerere to stick, adhere. See Aghast, a.]
- 1. To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass. [1913 Webster]
- Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent. [1913 Webster]
- They have been inserted where they best seemed to cohere. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To suit; to agree; to fit. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Had time cohered with place, or place with wishing. --Shak.
- Syn: To cleave; unite; adhere; stick; suit; agree; fit; be consistent. [1913 Webster] Coherence
Synonyms of 'cohere'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accord,
- adhere,
- agglomerate,
- agree,
- answer to,
- assent,
- associate,
- assort with,
- be consistent,
- be of one,
- be uniform with,
- blend,
- bunch,
- check,
- check out,
- chime,
- clasp,
- cleave,
- clinch,
- cling,
- cling to,
- clot,
- cluster,
- coagulate,
- coalesce,
- coincide,
- combine,
- come together,
- communicate,
- comport,
- concur,
- conform,
- conform with,
- congeal,
- conglomerate,
- connect,
- consist with,
- converge,
- cooperate,
- correspond,
- dovetail,
- embrace,
- fall in together,
- fit in,
- fit together,
- freeze to,
- fuse,
- go,
- go together,
- go with,
- grasp,
- grow together,
- hang on,
- hang together,
- harmonize,
- hit,
- hold,
- hold on,
- hold together,
- hug,
- intercommunicate,
- interlock,
- intersect,
- jibe,
- join,
- knit,
- lock,
- mass,
- match,
- meet,
- merge,
- overlap,
- parallel,
- persist,
- register,
- register with,
- respond to,
- set,
- sing in chorus,
- solidify,
- sort with,
- square,
- square with,
- stand together,
- stay,
- stay put,
- stick,
- stick together,
- take hold of,
- tally,
- unite