Adhere :: Adhere (v. i.) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura..
Adhere :: Adhere (v. i.) To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church..
Adhere :: Adhere (v. i.) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
Adherent :: Adherent (a.) Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
Adherent :: Adherent (a.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals..
Adherent :: Adherent (n.) One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church..
Adherent :: Adherent (n.) That which adheres; an appendage.
Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like..
Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy..
Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process..
Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant..
Adhesive :: Adhesive (a.) Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances..
Adhesive :: Adhesive (a.) Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.