adhere
verbEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin haereō Latin adhaereōder. Middle English *adheren English adhere From Middle English *adheren (suggested by Middle English adherande (“adhering, adherent”, present participle)), from Latin adhaerēre, adhaesum: ad (“to”) + haerēre (“to stick”). Compare French adhérer.
Definitions
To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does
To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.
- Wax adhered to his finger.
To be attached or devoted by personal union, in belief, on principle, etc.
- Upon the whole, if, by the British dominions, you mean territories subject to the Parliament, you adhere to your usual fallacy, and suppose what you are bound to prove.
To be consistent or coherent
To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
- For the most part, Hefner's female companions all adhered to the same mold: twentysomething, bosomy and blonde. "Well, I guess I know what I like," he once said when asked about his preferences.
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To fasten by adhesion.
- press on the two layers of paste to adhere them together […].
- Adhere them onto light shades of coordinating card stock and cut each piece of card stock %n larger than the image on four sides.
To affirm a judgment.
The neighborhood
- synonymadhere
- synonymattach
- synonymbond
- synonymcleave
- synonymcling
- synonymcohere
- synonymconglutinate
- synonymglue
- synonymhug
- synonymstick
- synonymstick together
- synonymstick with
- antonymdeadhere
- antonymdivide
- neighboradherence
- neighboradherent
- neighboradhesive
- neighborcohere
- neighbordeadhere
- neighborinhere
- neighboragglutinate
- neighborbraze
- neighborgum
- neighborlute
- neighborpaste
- neighborsolder
Derived
adherable, adherer, adheringly, cytoadhere, disadhere, nonadhering, readhere, unadhere, unadhered
Vish — recursive loop
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A definitional loop anchored at adhere. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at adhere
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA