cohesive

See also: cohésive

English

Etymology

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Compare French cohésif.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.hiː.sɪv/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊˈhiː.sɪv/

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Adjective

cohesive (comparative more cohesive, superlative most cohesive)

1. Having cohesion.
   • 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman‎^[1]:

     Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.

Derived terms

• cohesively

Related terms

• adhesive
• cohere
• coherence
• coherent
• cohesion

 

Translations

having cohesion

• Bulgarian: свързващ (bg) (svǎrzvašt), зацепващ (bg) (zacepvašt)
• Catalan: cohesiu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: soudržný (cs)
• Finnish: yhdistävä (fi)
• German: zusammenhängend (de)
• Greek: συνεκτικός (el) m (synektikós)
• Indonesian: kohesif (id)

• Malay: jeleket, kohesif
• Manx: co-ghreimmagh, co-haait, lhiantynagh
• Persian: منسجم‎ (fa) (monsajem)
• Portuguese: coeso (pt)
• Romanian: coerent (ro), coeziv
• Russian: свя́занный (ru) (svjázannyj), сплочённый (ru) (spločónnyj) (close-knit)
• Spanish: cohesivo (es)
• Swedish: sammanhängande (sv)
• Turkish: bağlı (tr), yapışık (tr), yapışkan (tr)

Noun

cohesive (plural cohesives)

1. A substance that provides cohesion
   • 2001, Doris Banowsky Arrington, Home is Where the Art Is‎^[2], →ISBN:

     The thesaurus (Chapman, 1977) lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods.

   • 2012, Lens Diseases—Advances in Research and Treatment: 2012 Edition‎^[3], →ISBN:

     Direct comparison meta-analysis showed that viscoadaptives lead to a lower loss in cell density compared with very low viscosity dispersives, and compared with super viscous cohesives.

2. (linguistics) A device used to establish cohesion within a text
   • 1988, Michael R. Walrod, Normative Discourse and Persuasion: An Analysis of Gaʹdang ...‎^[4]:

     The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT.

Anagrams

• ice shove