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Definition: Cohere |
CohereVerb1. 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: CohereSynonyms: adhere (v), cleave (v), cling (v), stick (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Cohere |
| English words defined with "cohere": Cohered, Cohering, cohesive ♦ Sarcobasis. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cohere": Coherent. (references) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 52.5% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 47.5% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cohere | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 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) fi unit, fi legat, fi coerent. (various references) 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) prianjati (adhere, adhere to, cling, stick), biti povezan. (various references) 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) stämma överens (accord, coincide, consist, fit, suit), klibba ihop (to stick together), hänga ihop (connect, hang together, interlink, interlock), ha sammanhang. (various references) สอ"คล้องกัน (tie in), อยู่ติ"กัน. (various references) 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) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 68 65 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- .... . .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o h e r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0068 0065 0072 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)378174718471 |
| 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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