单词 | cohere |
释义 | cohere (once / 571 pages) 1v 2v When things cohere, they come together in a meaningful way. It wasn't until we won a game that our team finally cohered, and we actually felt like a unit. Co- means "together," and here is from the Latin haerēre, "to stick." Put them together and you have "to stick together." When people work together on a project, it's important that their ideas cohere, otherwise the work can seem disjointed and awkward. The beauty of the dance was in the timing: everyone was so in step that they seemed to cohere into one great mass of humanity. If the president's staff doesn't cohere into a cohesive unit, his policies will never come together either. WORD FAMILYcohere: cohered, coherence, coherency, coherent, coheres, cohering, cohesion, cohesive+/coherence: coherences/coherency: coherencies/coherent: coherently, incoherent/cohesion: cohesions/cohesive: cohesively, cohesiveness/incoherence: incoherences/incoherency: incoherencies/incoherent: incoherence, incoherency, incoherently USAGE EXAMPLESBut in the editing room the film once more refused to cohere—an occupational hazard when you jettison plot. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Some years tend to cohere around a few ideas or arguments. The Guardian(Dec 12, 2016) Their varied contributions cohere into a paradoxical whole, in which the trivial rubs up against the unspeakably serious. New York Times(Dec 06, 2016) 1 1v cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole Religion can cohere social groups Hyper alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 2v have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results 2the principles by which societies cohere Hyper be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) v come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation The sushi rice grains cohere Syn|Hypo|Hyper adhere, cleave, cling, stick adhere, bind, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to stick to firmly stickfasten with an adhesive material like glue mold fit tightly, follow the contours of conglutinatestick together agglutinateclump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. haemagglutinate, hemagglutinatecause the clumping together (of red blood cells) adjoin, contact, meet, touch be in direct physical contact with; make contact |
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