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Webster 1913 Edition


Cohesive

Co-he′sive

,
Adj.
1.
Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together;
as,
cohesive
attraction
; producing cohesion;
as, a
cohesive
force
.
2.
Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere;
as,
cohesive
clay
.
Co-he′sive-ly
,
adv.
Co-he′sive-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cohesive

COHESIVE

,
Adj.
That has the power of sticking or cohering; tending to unite in a mass, and to resist separation.

Definition 2024


cohesive

cohesive

See also: cohésive

English

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:
      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.

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Noun

cohesive (plural cohesives)

  1. A substance that provides cohesion
    • 2001, Doris Banowsky Arrington, Home is Where the Art Is, ISBN 039808386X:
      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, ISBN 1481605496:
      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 ...:
      The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT.