Coherent vs Consisted - What's the difference?
coherent | consisted |
Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
* 1997 , Bernard J. Baars, "Psychology in a World of Sentient, Self-Knowing Beings: A Modest Utopian Fantasy", in Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century (ed. Robert L. Solso), MIT Press (1999), ISBN 9780262193856,
* 2005 , Tom Williamson, Sandlands: The Suffolk Coast and Heaths , Windgather (2005), ISBN 9781905119028, page 15:
* 2011 , Claire Klein Datnow, Behind the Walled Garden of Apartheid: Growing Up White in Segregated South Africa , Media Mint Publishing (2011), ISBN 9780984277834,
Orderly, logical and consistent.
* 2007 , Kenneth R. Hammond, Beyond Rationality: The Search for Wisdom in a Troubled Time , Oxford University Press (2007), ISBN 9780195311747,
* 2009 , John Polkinghorne & Nicholas Beale, Questions of Truth: Fifty-One Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief , Westminster John Knox Press (2009), ISBN 9780664233518,
* 2009 , Carrie Winstanley, Writing a Dissertation For Dummies , John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2009), ISBN 9780470742709,
Aesthetically ordered.
Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
(physics) Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
(botany) Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
(math, of a sheaf) Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space.
(consist)
(obsolete) To exist, to be.
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*:Why doe they cover with so many lets, one over another, those parts where chiefly consisteth our pleasure and theirs?
To be comprised or contained (in).
To be composed, formed, or made up (of).
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As an adjective coherent
is coherent.As a verb consisted is
(consist).coherent
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(Coherence)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)page 7:
- A sentence like this one cannot be understood unless somehow we can store the underlined words for several seconds, while we wait for the rest of the sentence to arrive, with the information needed to complete a coherent thought.
- Anglia, is part of a wider phenomenon of the seventh century - the development of recognisable, coherent kingdoms from the fragmented tribal society which emerged from the ruins of Roman Britain.
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- She intimidated me so much that I could hardly get out a coherent sentence in her presence.
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- Perhaps Khrushchev did have a coherent plan in mind at the time he placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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- It will dissolve at death with the decay of the body, but it is a perfectly coherent belief that the faithful God will not allow it to be lost but will preserve it in the divine memory.
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- Presenting a balanced and coherent argument is an important aspect of a nonempirical dissertation and you need to spend some time considering the most useful route through your argument.
Antonyms
* incoherentconsisted
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Verb
(head)consist
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) consister, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks?; half of them in a very dishevelled state,
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
Synonyms
* (be composed of) compriseDerived terms
* consist inEtymology 2
From (consist) (verb).Noun
(en noun)- The train's consist included a baggage car, four passenger cars, and a diner.