cohere

• cohære (rare)

Borrowed from Latin cohaereō (“cohere, cling (closely) together, harmonise, be consistent (with), be in agreement with”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈhɪə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊˈhɪɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

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, figurative) 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:

     That dream of beautiful Paris was not likely to cohere into substance in the presence of this misfortune.

   • 2024 April 15, Charles Hugh Smith, Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive‎^[2]:

     A system that degrades but coheres is a far better place to live than a system that completely collapses.

3. (transitive, figurative) To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.
   • 2022 October 2, Nicholas Carl, Kitaneh Fitzpatrick, Zachary Coles, and Frederick W. Kagan, “Iran Crisis Update, October 2”, in Iran Project‎^[3], Institute for the Study of War:

     This division suggests that Khamenei is not playing his usual role of cohering the regime during a crisis.

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

cohērē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cohēreō