Definition of "cohere" [co•here]

• To stick or hold together in a mass that resists separation. (verb-intransitive)
• To have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results: "The movie as a whole failed to cohere” ( Robert Brustein). (verb-intransitive)
• To cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "But the efforts to distance themselves from blacks did not cohere into a new Italian American racial identity and culture until the 1940s."
• "We suggest instead that Mormons cohere because they are a religious group that resembles an ethnicity—one based on belief, not blood."
• "Milieu: Separate locales cohere across the suturing of scenes -- e.g. in one scene the character is on the road; in the next they are booking into the motel."