What does cohere mean?

Definitions for cohere
koʊˈhɪərco·her·e

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohereverb

    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"

  2. cohereverb

    cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole

    "Religion can cohere social groups"

  3. cohereverb

    have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results

    "the principles by which societies cohere"

Wiktionary

  1. cohereverb

    To stick together physically, by adhesion or figuratively by common purpose.

    Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.

  2. cohereverb

    To be consistent as part of a group.

    Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.

  3. Etymology: From the cohaereo.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To COHEREverb

    Etymology: cohæreo, Latin.

    Two pieces of marble, having their surface exactly plain, polite, and applied to each other in such a manner as to intercept the air, do cohere firmly together as one. John Woodward.

    We find that the force, whereby bodies cohere, is very much greater when they come to immediate contact, than when they are at ever so small a finite distance. George Cheyne, Phil. Prin.

    None want a place for all their center found,
    Hung to the goddess, and coher’d around;
    Not closer, orb in orb conglob’d, are seen
    The buzzing bees about their dusky queen. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

    Had time coher’d with place, or place with wishing. William Shakespeare.

Wikipedia

  1. Cohere

    Cohere (stylized as co:here) is a Canadian startup that provides natural language processing models that help companies improve human-machine interactions. Cohere was founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, and Nick Frosst.

ChatGPT

  1. cohere

    To cohere generally means to stick together or hold together firmly, either in a literal sense referring to physical objects or in a figurative sense referring to ideas, principles or parts of a story. It is the act or state of forming a united and consistent whole. It can also mean to be logically or aesthetically consistent with certain principles or ideas.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cohereadjective

    to stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass

  2. Cohereadjective

    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

  3. Cohereadjective

    to suit; to agree; to fit

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Cohere

    kō-hēr′, v.i. to stick together: to follow in proper connection: to be consistent.—ns. Coher′ence, a sticking together: a consistent connection between several parts: congruity; Coher′ency.—adj. Coher′ent, sticking together: connected: consistent in thought or speech.—adv. Coher′ently.—n. Coher′er, an apparatus for the reception of the waves in 'wireless' telegraphy.—adj. Cohē′sible, capable of cohesion.—n. Cohē′sion, the act of sticking together: a form of attraction by which particles of bodies stick together: logical connection.—adj. Cohē′sive, having the power of cohering: tending to unite into a mass.—adv. Cohē′sively.—ns. Cohē′siveness, Cohesibil′ity. [L. cohærēre, cohæsum, co-, together, and hærēre, to stick.]

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  1. echoer

  2. re-echo

  3. reecho

  4. choree

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cohere in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cohere in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of cohere in a Sentence

  1. Dan Stein:

    It implicates deep, profound moral questions, it implicates the question of the rule of law and citizenship and how we define ourselves as a nation, what enables us to cohere as a nation not bound by substantive historical traditions or ethnicity or even language anymore. In the end, respect for law remains a cornerstone of citizenship.

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Translations for cohere

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  • съгласувам се, прилепвамBulgarian
  • binden, ein Ganzes bilden, in sich geschlossen sein, aneinanderhaften, aneinanderkleben, zusammenhängen, eine Einheit bildenGerman
  • attirer, s'attirerFrench
  • uyuşmak, tutarlı olmak, bağlantılı olmak, birbirini tutmak, birbirine yapışmakTurkish
  • ہم آہنگیUrdu

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