"cohere" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /kəʊˈhɪə/ [UK], /koʊˈhɪɚ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-cohere.wav [US] Forms: coheres [present, singular, third-person], cohering [participle, present], cohered [participle, past], cohered [past]
Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ) Etymology: From the Latin cohaereō (“cohere, cling (closely) together, harmonise, be consistent (with), be in agreement with”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|cohaereō||cohere, cling (closely) together, harmonise, be consistent (with), be in agreement with}} Latin cohaereō (“cohere, cling (closely) together, harmonise, be consistent (with), be in agreement with”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} cohere (third-person singular simple present coheres, present participle cohering, simple past and past participle cohered)
  1. (intransitive) To stick together physically, by adhesion. Tags: intransitive Translations (to stick together): прилепвам (prilepvam) (Bulgarian), cohesionar (Catalan), s’attirer (French), attirer (French), se cohérer (French), aneinanderhaften (German), aneinanderkleben (German), binden (German), ein Ganzes bilden (German), eine Einheit bilden (German), cohaereō (Latin), cohesionar (Spanish), birbirine yapışmak (Turkish), birbirini tutmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-cohere-en-verb--bRpvpW0 Disambiguation of 'to stick together': 97 2 2
  2. (intransitive, figurative) To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose. Tags: figuratively, intransitive
    Sense id: en-cohere-en-verb-JtpaEe-y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 47 47
  3. (transitive, figurative) To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose. Tags: figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: en-cohere-en-verb-JtpaEe-y1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 47 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cohære [rare] Derived forms: decohere Related terms: adhere, coherence, coherent, cohesion, cohesive, inhere Translations (to be consistent as part of a group): съгласувам се (sǎglasuvam se) (Bulgarian), in sich geschlossen sein (German), zusammenhängen (German), ser coherente (Spanish), bağlantılı olmak (Turkish), tutarlı olmak (Turkish), uyuşmak (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'to be consistent as part of a group': 1 50 50

Verb [Latin]

Forms: cohērē [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|la|verb form|head=cohērē}} cohērē
  1. second-person singular present active imperative of cohēreō Tags: active, form-of, imperative, present, second-person, singular Form of: cohēreō
    Sense id: en-cohere-la-verb-IxR~WPBD Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to be consistent as part of a group",
      "word": "tutarlı olmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to be consistent as part of a group",
      "word": "uyuşmak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cohere"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cohērē",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "verb form",
        "head": "cohērē"
      },
      "expansion": "cohērē",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin non-lemma forms",
        "Latin verb forms"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "cohēreō"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "second-person singular present active imperative of cohēreō"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cohēreō",
          "cohereo#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "form-of",
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cohere"
}
{
  "called_from": "translations/369",
  "msg": "unrecognized prefix (language name?) in translation item: __IGNORE__: To stick together physically",
  "path": [
    "cohere"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "cohere",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "translations/369",
  "msg": "unrecognized prefix (language name?) in translation item: __IGNORE__: For molecules, to stick together physically",
  "path": [
    "cohere"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "cohere",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "translations/369",
  "msg": "unrecognized prefix (language name?) in translation item: __IGNORE__: To stick together figuratively by common purpose",
  "path": [
    "cohere"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "cohere",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "translations/369",
  "msg": "unrecognized prefix (language name?) in translation item: __IGNORE__, __IGNORE__: To be consistent as part of a group",
  "path": [
    "cohere"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "cohere",
  "trace": ""
}

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