英语词汇“adhere”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	adhere
释义	ad·here \adˈhi(ə)r, əd-, -iə\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French adhérer, from Latin adhaerēre, from ad- + haerēre to stick — more at hesitate *intransitive verb* 1. : to hold, follow, or maintain loyalty steadily and consistently (as to a person, group, principle, or way) < the agrarian party, to which he adhered to the end of his life — V.L.Parrington > 2. obsolete : to be consistent or in accord < nor time nor place did then adhere — Shakespeare > 3. a. : to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing < paper adhering to the wall > b. : to become joined (as in pathological adhesion) < the lung sometimes adheres to the pleura > 4. : to agree to join : bind oneself to observance (as of a treaty) < other tribes adhered to the pact — P.M.Angle > 5. Scots law : to cohabit as husband or wife 6. botany : to display adhesion *transitive verb* : to cause to stick fast < paper that had been adhered to a surface with glue > Synonyms: stick, cling, cleave, cohere: adhere is a general term somewhat more bookish in suggestion than stick to indicate any holding to, especially steadily and over a period of time < the glue adhering to the frame > < dried blood still adhering to the cloth > < to revise our ideas and not to adhere to what passes for respectable opinion — J.H.Robinson > stick, more familiar and forceful, may more strongly indicate close tenacious holding to, as though fixed in, embedded, glued < the barb stuck in the flesh > < the molasses stuck to his fingers > < both sides sticking obstinately to their old positions — New Statesman & Nation > cling suggests a hanging on or holding to tenaciously as though in danger or fear of losing one's grip < tall spruce, their roots clinging tenaciously to the few inches of soil, crown the summit — American Guide Series: Maine > < throwing men and women into the sea with a ship to cling to and a chance of reaching another country — G.B.Shaw > < hopes which Huxley cherished and to which many still cling — J.W.Krutch > cleave, a rather literary word, implies a close sticking or holding of or as if of flat layers glued or plastered together, a very close, lasting, and indissoluble attachment < the soaked shirt cleaving to his shoulders > < to love one maiden only, cleave to her, and worship her by years of noble deeds — Alfred Tennyson > cohere may indicate either a physical sticking together in a mass or an abstract common principle or general consistency that facilitates joining or uniting; it applies to the holding together of like things, of parts of a whole < the mortar will cohere to the bricks > < the parts of the exposition do not cohere >
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