different between coherent vs sticky

English

Alternative forms

• cohærent (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French coherent, from Latin coha?r?ns, from co- + haere?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k???h????nt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ko??hi??nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ko??h???nt/, /ko??hi??nt/

Adjective

coherent (comparative more coherent, superlative most coherent)

1. Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
   • 1997, Bernard J. Baars, "Psychology in a World of Sentient, Self-Knowing Beings: A Modest Utopian Fantasy", in Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century (ed. Robert L. Solso), MIT Press (1999), ?ISBN, page 7:

     A sentence like this one cannot be understood unless somehow we can store the underlined words for several seconds, while we wait for the rest of the sentence to arrive, with the information needed to complete a coherent thought.

   • 2005, Tom Williamson, Sandlands: The Suffolk Coast and Heaths, Windgather (2005), ?ISBN, page 15:

     Anglia, is part of a wider phenomenon of the seventh century - the development of recognisable, coherent kingdoms from the fragmented tribal society which emerged from the ruins of Roman Britain.

   • 2011, Claire Klein Datnow, Behind the Walled Garden of Apartheid: Growing Up White in Segregated South Africa, Media Mint Publishing (2011), ?ISBN, page 124:

     She intimidated me so much that I could hardly get out a coherent sentence in her presence.

2. Orderly, logical and consistent.
   • 2007, Kenneth R. Hammond, Beyond Rationality: The Search for Wisdom in a Troubled Time, Oxford University Press (2007), ?ISBN, page 108:

     Perhaps Khrushchev did have a coherent plan in mind at the time he placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba.

   • 2009, John Polkinghorne & Nicholas Beale, Questions of Truth: Fifty-One Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief, Westminster John Knox Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 23:

     It will dissolve at death with the decay of the body, but it is a perfectly coherent belief that the faithful God will not allow it to be lost but will preserve it in the divine memory.

   • 2009, Carrie Winstanley, Writing a Dissertation For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2009), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Presenting a balanced and coherent argument is an important aspect of a nonempirical dissertation and you need to spend some time considering the most useful route through your argument.
3. Aesthetically ordered.
4. Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
5. (physics) Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
6. (botany) Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
7. (mathematics, of a sheaf) Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space.

Antonyms

• incoherent

Related terms

• adherent
• coherence
• cohere
• cohesive
• inherent

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cohaer?ns.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ent

Adjective

coherent (masculine and feminine plural coherents)

1. coherent

   Antonym: incoherent

Derived terms

• coherentment

Related terms

• coherència
• incoherent

Further reading

• “coherent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coherent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “coherent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “coherent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Verb

coh?rent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of coh?re?

Romanian

Adjective

coherent m or n (feminine singular coherent?, masculine plural coheren?i, feminine and neuter plural coherente)

1. Alternative form of coerent

Declension

English

Etymology

From stick +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?ki/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Adjective

sticky (comparative stickier, superlative stickiest)

1. Able or likely to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.

2. Potentially difficult to escape from.
   • 2014, Michael White, "Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian, 8 September 2014:

     Salmond studied medieval Scottish history as well as economics at university so he cannot say he has not had fair warning – it was even more turbulent and bloody than England at that time – and plenty of Scotland's kings and leaders came to a sticky end.

3. Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
   • 2008, Robert K. Fitts, Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball

     The baby was due in December and the hot, sticky August weather was making Jane uncomfortable.

4. (finance) Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.

5. (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.

6. (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
7. (Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
8. (Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.

9. Similar to a stick

Synonyms

• (able or likely to adhere): claggy, tenacious; see also Thesaurus:adhesive
• (hot, windless and humid): close, muggy, sultry; see also Thesaurus:muggy

Derived terms

• stickily
• stickiness
• sticky-backed plastic
• sticky bit
• sticky fingers
• sticky note
• sticky tape
• sticky wicket

Translations

See also

• tacky

Noun

sticky (plural stickies)

1. A sticky note, such as a post-it note.

   Her desk is covered with yellow stickies.

2. (Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
3. (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
4. (Australia, colloquial) A sweet dessert wine.

Translations

Verb

sticky (third-person singular simple present stickies, present participle stickying, simple past and past participle stickied)

1. (Internet, bulletin boards, transitive) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

Translations