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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cohere \Co*here"\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cohered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cohering}.] [L. cohaerere, cohaesum; co- + haerere to stick, adhere. See {Aghast}, adjective]
1. To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together. --Locke.
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.
They have been inserted where they best seemed to cohere. --Burke.
3. To suit; to agree; to fit. [Obs.]
Had time cohered with place, or place with wishing. --Shak.
Syn: To cleave; unite; adhere; stick; suit; agree; fit; be consistent.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cohere
verb
1: 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}]
2: cause to form a united, orderly, and aethestically consistent whole; "Religion can cohere social groups"
3: have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results; "the principles by which societies cohere"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "cohere": 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
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