cohesive

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Thân thiện

The team's cohesive effort led to a successful project.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having the quality of sticking together or being united: Describes something whose parts are firmly connected, forming a unified whole.
   • Causing unity or sticking together: Describes an agent or force that promotes unity or adhesion between parts.

Usage

• General Use: Used to describe groups, teams, materials, or arguments that are unified and work well together as a single entity.
• Formal/Technical Use: Common in academic, scientific, and business contexts to describe physical properties (e.g., of substances) or social dynamics (e.g., of teams).

Examples

• Describing a group or organization:
  • The team was highly cohesive and rarely had internal conflicts.
  • A cohesive community works together to solve problems.
• Describing a material or substance:
  • The mixture needs a cohesive agent to bind the ingredients together.
  • Clay is a cohesive material.
• Describing an argument or narrative:
  • She presented a cohesive argument that was easy to follow.

Advanced Usage

• "Cohesive force": A force that causes particles or parts to stick together.
  • Surface tension is a cohesive force in liquids.
• "Socially cohesive": Describes a society or group with strong social bonds and unity.
  • The policy aims to create a more socially cohesive neighborhood.

Variants and Related Words

• Cohesion (n): The act or state of sticking together; unity.
  • The cohesion of the team was their greatest strength.
• Cohesively (adv): In a cohesive manner.
  • The essay was cohesively written.
• Cohesiveness (n): The quality of being cohesive.
  • The cohesiveness of the dough depends on the gluten.

Synonyms

• United: Joined together politically or by feelings.
• Integrated: Combined to form a whole.
• Unified: Made into a single unit.
• Sticky: Tending to adhere.

Antonyms

• Disjointed: Lacking a coherent sequence or connection.
• Fragmented: Broken into separate parts.
• Incoherent: Not logical or clear.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated
   • a cohesive organization
2. causing cohesion
   • a cohesive agent