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adherent
1、 Someone who follows a leader, a party, or a profession.
2、 One who believes in a particular philosophy or religion.
🌱The general's adherents heavily outnumbered his opponents and managed to shout them down repeatedly. 🌳Just as tape *adheres* to paper, a person may adhere to a cause, a faith, or a belief. Thus, you may be an adherent of Hinduism, an adherent of environmentalism, or an adherent of the Republican Party. A plan for cutting taxes always attracts adherents easily, regardless of what the cuts may result in. cohere To hold together firmly as parts of the same mass.
🌱His novels never really cohere; the chapters always seem like separate short stories. 🌳When you finish writing a paper, you may feel that it coheres well, since it's sharply focused and all the ideas seem to support each other. When all the soldiers in an army platoon feel like buddies, the platoon has become a *cohesive* unit. In science class you may learn the difference between *cohesion* （the tendency of a chemical's molecules to stick together） and *adhesion* （the tendency of the molecules of two different substances to stick together）. Water molecules tend to cohere, so water falls from the sky in drops, not as separate molecules. But water molecules also *adhere* to molecules of other substances, so raindrops will often cling to the underside of a clothesline for a while before gravity pulls them down. incoherent 1、 Unclear or difficult to understand.
2、 Loosely organized or inconsistent.
🌱The police had found him in an abandoned warehouse, and they reported that he was dirty, hungry, and incoherent. 🌳*Incoherent* is the opposite of *coherent*, and both commonly refer to words and thoughts. Just as *coherent* means well ordered and clear, *incoherent* means disordered and hard to follow. *Incoherence* in speech may result from emotional stress, especially anxiety or anger. Incoherence in writing may simply result from poor planning; a twelve-page term paper that isn't written until the night before it's due will generally suffer from incoherence. inherent Part of something by nature or habit.
🌱A guiding belief behind our Constitution is that individuals have certain inherent rights that can't be taken away. 🌳*Inherent* literally refers to something that is "stuck in" something else so firmly that they can't be separated. A plan may have an inherent flaw that will cause it to fail; a person may have inherent virtues that everyone admires. Since the flaw and the virtues can't be removed, the plan may simply have to be thrown out and the person will remain virtuous forever.
2、 One who believes in a particular philosophy or religion.
🌱The general's adherents heavily outnumbered his opponents and managed to shout them down repeatedly. 🌳Just as tape *adheres* to paper, a person may adhere to a cause, a faith, or a belief. Thus, you may be an adherent of Hinduism, an adherent of environmentalism, or an adherent of the Republican Party. A plan for cutting taxes always attracts adherents easily, regardless of what the cuts may result in. cohere To hold together firmly as parts of the same mass.
🌱His novels never really cohere; the chapters always seem like separate short stories. 🌳When you finish writing a paper, you may feel that it coheres well, since it's sharply focused and all the ideas seem to support each other. When all the soldiers in an army platoon feel like buddies, the platoon has become a *cohesive* unit. In science class you may learn the difference between *cohesion* （the tendency of a chemical's molecules to stick together） and *adhesion* （the tendency of the molecules of two different substances to stick together）. Water molecules tend to cohere, so water falls from the sky in drops, not as separate molecules. But water molecules also *adhere* to molecules of other substances, so raindrops will often cling to the underside of a clothesline for a while before gravity pulls them down. incoherent 1、 Unclear or difficult to understand.
2、 Loosely organized or inconsistent.
🌱The police had found him in an abandoned warehouse, and they reported that he was dirty, hungry, and incoherent. 🌳*Incoherent* is the opposite of *coherent*, and both commonly refer to words and thoughts. Just as *coherent* means well ordered and clear, *incoherent* means disordered and hard to follow. *Incoherence* in speech may result from emotional stress, especially anxiety or anger. Incoherence in writing may simply result from poor planning; a twelve-page term paper that isn't written until the night before it's due will generally suffer from incoherence. inherent Part of something by nature or habit.
🌱A guiding belief behind our Constitution is that individuals have certain inherent rights that can't be taken away. 🌳*Inherent* literally refers to something that is "stuck in" something else so firmly that they can't be separated. A plan may have an inherent flaw that will cause it to fail; a person may have inherent virtues that everyone admires. Since the flaw and the virtues can't be removed, the plan may simply have to be thrown out and the person will remain virtuous forever.
HER comes from the Latin verb haerere, meaning "to stick." Another form of the verb produces the root hes-, seen in such words as adhesive, which means basically "sticky" or "sticking," and hesitate, which means more or less "stuck in one place."🌸