Cohere

  

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Cohere

Definition: Cohere

Cohere

Verb

1. Come or be in close contact with; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cohere" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references)

Note: Cohere \Co*here"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Cohered; present participle verb or noun Cohering.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Cohere

Synonyms: adhere (v), cleave (v), cling (v), stick (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cohere

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Coherence

Verb: cohere, adhere, stick, cling, cleave, hold, take hold of, hold fast, close with, clasp, hug; grow together, hang together; twine round; (join).

Density

Verb: be dense. Adjective: become solid, render solid. Adjective: solidify, solidate; concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate; curd, curdle; lopper; fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize; petrify. (harden).

Junction

Be joined; hang together, hold together; cohere.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cohere

English words defined with "cohere": Cohered, Cohering, cohesiveSarcobasis. (references)
Etymologies containing "cohere": Coherent. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Cohere

"Cohere" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 52.50% of the time. "Cohere" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)52.5%2176,261
Lexical Verb (infinitive)47.5%1980,337
                    Total100.00%40N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cohere

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cohere

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cohere

Language Translations for "cohere"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rrinë bashkë, lidhen natyrshëm, lidhem (associate, attach, bind, communicate, connect, correlate, interconnexion, link, relate, tie). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ترابط منطقي وملتحم, ‏إلتحم (adhere, coalesce, skin, solder, unite, weld), ‏إتحد (associate, band together, get together, incorporate, integrate, join, make a bee-line for a place, marry, meet, merge). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съгласувам (accord, harmonize, piece together, proportion, proportionate, quadrate, reconcile, suit, work in), съединявам се (combine, interflow, join, knit together, league), слепвам се (adhere). (various references)

   

Czech

  

souviset. (various references)

   

Danish

  

kohærere (to stick together), hænge sammen (to stick together). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

aaneenhechten (to stick together). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

چسبیدن (Adhere, Cleave, Cling, Glue, Hold), رابطه خویشی داشتن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pysyä koossa (hold together). (various references)

   

French

  

devenir cohérent, adhérer, être cohérent. (various references)

   

German

  

zusammenhängen (be coherent, be connected, be joined, hang together, interlink, interlock, interrelate, to cohere). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συγκολλώ (bond, conglutinate, knit, splice, weld), συνέρχομαι (come round, come to, congregate, convene, get over, meet, pull oneself together, pull round, recover from, recuperate), διατηρώ συνέπεια, διατηρώ συνοχή. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"בוק יח", עקבי (consistent, logical). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

összetapad (to ball, to cohere, to felt, to seize), összefügg (to cohere, to hang together, to relate). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

melengket (adhere), berkumpul (agglomerate, assemble, congregate, gather). (various references)

   

Italian

  

essere coerente, aver coesione, aderire (accede, accrete, adhere, assent, cleave, cling, comply, comply with, enlist, join, subscribe). (various references)

   

Manx

  

rere y cheilley (analogical, consequent, consistently). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oherecay

   

Portuguese

  

concordar (accede, accept, accord, adhere, agree, approbate, assent, assort, bring into agreement, chime, close, comply, concur, consent, correspond, cotton, covenant, emboss, let, own, subscribe, yes), juntar (accumulate, add, adjoin, affix, amass, annex, annexe, append, assemble, attach, brace, bulk, collect, conjoin, connect, couple, enclose, fund, gather, get-together, halve, heap, herd, huddle, inclose, inosculate, join, joining, joint, mass, mix, muster, piece, piece together, put to, put together, rake, reunite, run-on, seam, splice, stash, subjoin, tack, unite, weld), apegar-se (cling), aglutinar (agglutinate), aderir (accede, accept, accrete, coalesce, join, subscribe). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fi unit, fi legat, fi coerent. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

согласовываться (agree, be in agreement, cotton, jump with), соответствовать (agree, answer, be followed in, be matched by, check with, coincide, comport, conform, conform with, correspond, correspond to, correspond with, jump with, match, measure, measure up, parallel, pertain to), быть связным. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prianjati (adhere, adhere to, cling, stick), biti povezan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ser consecuentes, pegarse (adhere, burn, cling, hold, slug out, stick, stick on, stick together, tag on), adherirse (adhere, cleave, cling, embrace, espouse, fall in, latch on to, stick). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stämma överens (accord, coincide, consist, fit, suit), klibba ihop (to stick together), hänga ihop (connect, hang together, interlink, interlock), ha sammanhang. (various references)

   

Thai

  

สอ"คล้องกัน (tie in), อยู่ติ"กัน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yapışmak (adhere, cleave, clench, clinch, cling, clutch, conglutinate, fasten on, glue, seize, stick), tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), tutarlı olmak (coincide, hold together), eş fazlı olmak, bağlantılı olmak (be linked, communicate, corelate, correlate, interconnect). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

узгоджуватися (accord, comport, conform, consist, cotton, stand together, sympathize), гармоніювати (accord, assort, consort with, fall in with, go well together, harmonize, tune), бути зчепленим. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cohere

Derivations

Words beginning with "cohere": cohered, coherence, coherences, coherencies, coherency, coherent, coherently, coherer, coherers, coheres. (additional references)

Words containing "cohere": incoherence, incoherences, incoherent, incoherently, noncoherent. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Cohere" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cacherel, cedere, chere, cherne, Chevre, choera, Chree, Cmhera, coehra, coera, cohave, cohera, cohers, coherse, cohert, cohork, Cohorn, cohue, colere, Colherne, comeri, Cothereau, covere, Pohorje, Roherrim, Zoehrer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cohere

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cheero, echoer, reecho.

Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-o-r"

-1 letter: cheer, chore, ocher, ochre.

-2 letters: cere, cero, core, eche, echo, here, hero, hoer.

-3 letters: cee, cor, ere, her, hoe, orc, ore, rec, ree, rho, roc, roe.

-4 letters: eh, er, he, ho, oe, oh, or, re.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-o-r"
 

+1 letter: cheerio, cheeros, cohered, coherer, coheres, echoers, ochered, ochreae, rechose, trochee.

 

+2 letters: cheerios, cheveron, choremen, coherent, coherers, coinhere, comether, coryphee, coshered, fourchee, hectored, poechore, rechoose, rechosen, reclothe, reechoed, reechoes, tochered, torchere, trochees.

 

+3 letters: beachgoer, brochette, cerecloth, chaperone, chernozem, cheverons, choppered, chowdered, coheiress, coherence, coherency, coinhered, coinheres, comethers, coryphees, crocheted, crocheter, ecosphere, ectotherm, forecheck, forereach, heterotic, horserace, hydrocele, lecherous, overreach, poechores, racehorse, rechooses, reclothed, reclothes, reechoing, retouched, retoucher, retouches, theoretic, torcheres, tracheole, trochleae, vouchered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Cohere


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 68 65 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#104 &#101 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0068 0065 0072 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

378174718471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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