Cohere vs Cleave - What's the difference?
cohere | cleave | Synonyms |
To stick together physically, by adhesion or figuratively by common purpose.
To be consistent as part of a group.
To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
* Shakespeare
(mineralogy) To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
(chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
To split.
(mineralogy) Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
(technology) Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.
As verbs the difference between cohere and cleave
is that cohere is to stick together physically, by adhesion or figuratively by common purpose while cleave is to split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.As a noun cleave is
flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.cohere
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Alternative forms
*Verb
- Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force .
- Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.
Anagrams
* ----cleave
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) cleven, from the (etyl) strong verb .Verb
- The wings cleaved the foggy air.
- O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
- The truck cleaved a path through the ice.