English

Adjective

cohesive ‎(comparative more cohesive, superlative most cohesive)

1. Having cohesion.
   • 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:

     Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.

Translations

Derived terms

• cohesively

Related terms

• adhesive
• cohere
• coherence
• coherent
• cohesion

Noun

cohesive ‎(plural cohesives)

1. A substance that provides cohesion
   • 2001, Doris Banowsky Arrington, Home is Where the Art Is, ISBN 039808386X:

     The thesaurus (Chapman, 1977) lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods.

   • 2012, Lens Diseases—Advances in Research and Treatment: 2012 Edition, ISBN 1481605496:

     Direct comparison meta-analysis showed that viscoadaptives lead to a lower loss in cell density compared with very low viscosity dispersives, and compared with super viscous cohesives.

2. (linguistics) A device used to establish cohesion within a text
   • 1988, Michael R. Walrod, Normative Discourse and Persuasion: An Analysis of Gaʹdang ...:

     The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT.