cohere
Other forms: cohering; coheres; cohered
When things cohere, they come together in a meaningful way. It wasn't until we won a game that our team finally cohered, and we actually felt like a unit.
Co- means "together," and here is from the Latin haerēre, "to stick." Put them together and you have "to stick together." When people work together on a project, it's important that their ideas cohere, otherwise the work can seem disjointed and awkward. The beauty of the dance was in the timing: everyone was so in step that they seemed to cohere into one great mass of humanity. If the president's staff doesn't cohere into a cohesive unit, his policies will never come together either.
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cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole
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have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results“the principles by which societies cohere”type of:behave the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
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come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation“The sushi rice grains cohere”stickfasten with an adhesive material like gluetypes:moldfit tightly, follow the contours ofconglutinatestick togetheragglutinateclump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.
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