What is the difference between adhesion and accede?
adhesion | accede |
The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance.
Persistent attachment or loyalty.
An agreement to adhere.
(medicine) An abnormal union of surface by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
(archaic) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 32:
To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
As a noun adhesion
is the ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance.As a verb accede is
(archaic|intransitive) to approach; to arrive, to come forward.adhesion
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)Antonyms
* cohesionaccede
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Verb
(acced)- Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.