8 August 2016
cohere
[koh-heer]
verb (used without object), cohered, cohering.
1. to stick together; be united; hold fast, as parts of the same mass:
The particles of wet flour cohered to form a paste.
2. Physics. (of two or more similar substances) to be united within a body by the action of molecular forces.
3. to be naturally or logically connected:
Without sound reasoning no argument will cohere.
4. to agree; be congruous:
Her account of the incident cohered with his.
Origin of cohere
Latin
1590-1600; < Latin cohaerēre, equivalent to co- co- + haerēre to stick, cling
Synonyms
1. See stick2. 3. follow.
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Historical Examples
The electric waves are said to cause the filings to cohere —that is, to cling together more closely.
The Story of Great Inventions
Elmer Ellsworth Burns
But some things do not at all cohere with what is otherwise known of Albert.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1
Various
Then disintegration sets in, the social momentum is gradually relaxed, and society sinks back to a level at which it can cohere.
The Theory of Social Revolutions
Brooks Adams
Anagrams
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Today’s quote
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
– Martin Luther King
On this day
8 August 1864 – Formation of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland.
8 August 1945 – The Soviet Union declares war on the Empire of Japan and invades the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. In late, July 1945 Japan, naively, had been petitioning the neutral Soviets to broker a peace deal favourable to the Japanese. While the invasion violated the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, it was in accordance with the secret Yalta Agreements that the Soviet Union made with the United States and the United Kingdom at the Crimea Conference held between 4-11 February 1945, in which Stalin agreed to attack Japan within 3 months of Germany’s surrender.
8 August 1953 – conclusion of negotiations for the 1953 London Debt Agreement which had begun on 27 February 1953, when West Germany was given debt relief by creditor nations, which included Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greece, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa, the United States, Yugoslavia and others. The debt of 32 billion marks (16 billion owed to the United States and 16 billion to other nations) had accumulated since the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The London Agreement halved the debt to 15 billion marks to be paid out over 30 years. The repayments were capped at 3% of export earnings and were only required while West Germany had a trade surplus. This significantly boosted West Germany’s export market and directly resulted in Germany becoming an economic powerhouse.
8 August 1959 – death of Albert Namatjira, Australian Aboriginal artist. Born 28 July 1902.
8 August 1974 – USA President Richard Nixon resigns because of his impending impeachment for ‘obstruction of justice’, ‘abuse of power’, and ‘contempt of congress’, in relation to the Watergate Scandal.
8 August 1981 – birth of Roger Federer in Switzerland, champion tennis player.
8 August 1988 – The ‘8888’ Uprising in Burma, from which Aung Sun Suu Kyi gains popularity and becomes a national hero.