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[koh-heer]

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verb (used without object), -hered, -her·ing.

to stick together; be united; hold fast, as parts of the same mass: The particles of wet flour cohered to form a paste.

Physics. (of two or more similar substances) to be united within a body by the action of molecular forces.

to be naturally or logically connected: Without sound reasoning no argument will cohere.

to agree; be congruous: Her account of the incident cohered with his.

Origin:
1590–1600; < Latin cohaerēre, equivalent to co- co- + haerēre to stick, cling

Synonyms
1. See stick². 3. follow.

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a device that produces a nearly parallel, monochromatic, coherent beam of light by exciting atoms to a higher energy level and causing them to radiate

energy transmitted in wave motion, especially electromagnetic wave motion

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Chopra, though charming as always, can't make her cohere.

These layers of resources to cohere discrete bits requires machines, which require heat dissipation.

To try to make all of those partnerships cohere and still create a.

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Chopra, though charming as always, can't make her cohere.

These layers of resources to cohere discrete bits requires machines, which require heat dissipation.

To try to make all of those partnerships cohere and still create a.

Despite sharp performances across the board, the characters and their interrelationships do not cohere to form a credible drama.

Theirs is the argument between a rationalist and someone who has allowed her deepest fears to compound and cohere into doctrine.

Using heel of your hand, knead dough bits until they cohere.

But the humor is both too oblique and too mild-mannered for the movie to cohere as a modern comic fable.

But her good ideas did not always cohere into dances that were effective from their first steps to their last.

Probably the quintet's run at the club this week will make it breathe and cohere before it is recorded in the studio next month.

Dilisa's search is too sketchy for it to cohere as a real-life detective story.

But the movie is so sloppily written and directed that its bits of bluster never cohere.

Some of the writing is formidable, yet the action of the plot never seems likely to cohere.

European ministers have generated a political cacophony, failing to cohere around quick and clear messages to markets.

Perhaps it was an ability to play against type that made these players cohere so effectively.

Only at second glance do overall patterns cohere into outlines of missiles and bombs.

Even when taken together, however, these elements fail to cohere into a completely satisfying explanation.

But the information he gathers throughout tends not to cohere and climb toward light.

Yet they do cohere as an expression of the author's consciousness:.

Johns makes lines, washes and colors cohere into chunky, rounded numerals.

But they only rarely cohere into a three-dimensional landscape.

The movements, however, seldom cohere into serious phrases and never into sustained dances.

But there is only one moment in this production when all its elements cohere perfectly.

The lens of party to cohere a political vision requires social strengths atypical in this age to wield effectively.

Conversely, policies designed to promote spending are more likely to be successful if they cohere with those predispositions.

They must cohere with more general rules about life and living.

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cohere (kəʊˈhɪə)

—vb
1.	to hold or stick firmly together
2.	to be connected logically; be consistent
3.	physics to be held together by the action of molecular forces

[C16: from Latin cohaerēre from co- together + haerēre to cling, adhere]

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cohere

1590s, from L. cohærere "to cleave together," from com- "together" + hærere "to stick" (see coherent). Related: Coherency, cohering.

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"To the young mind, every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things, and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running underground, whereby contrary and remote things cohere, and flower out from one stem."

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