Chapter Words Expressing Abstract Relations of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

Fastening, tie, ligament, ligature, strap, tackle, rigging, traces, harness, yoke, band, tire, brace, bandage, roller, fillet, thong, braid, girder, girth, cestus, garter, halter, noose, lasso, lariat, surcingle, knot, running- knot, slip-knot, reef-knot, sailor's knot, granny-knot, etc.

Pin, corking-pin, safety-pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, clamp, vice, bracket, cramp, screw, button, buckle, brooch, clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, latchet, tag, hook, tooth, hook and eye, lock, locket, holdfast, padlock, rivet, grappling-iron, stake, post, gyve, shackle, etc. 752, clip.

Cement, glue, gum, paste, size, solder, lute, putty, birdlime, mortar, stucco, plaster, grout.

• Coherence (Substantives), cohesion, adherence, adhesion, accretion, concretion, agglutination, conglutination, aggregation, consolidation, set, cementation, soldering, welding, grouting.

Sticking, clinging, adhesiveness, stickiness, gumminess, gummosity, glutinosity, cohesiveness, density 321, inseparability, inseparableness, tenaciousness, tenacity.

Clot, concrete, cake, lump, solid, conglomerate 321.

(Verbs). To cohere, adhere, stick, cling, cleave, hold, take hold of, hold fast, hug, grow or hang together, twine round.

To concrete, curdle, cake.

(Phrases). To stick like a leech; to stick like wax; to cling like ivy, like a bur, like a limpet.

To glue, agglutinate, conglutinate, consolidate, solidify 321, cement, lute, paste, gum, grout, stick, solder, weld.

(Adjectives). Cohesive, adhesive, cohering, tenacious, etc., sticky, glutinous, gluey, gummy, viscous 352, agglutinatory.

United, unseparated, sessile, inseparable, infrangible 321.

• Want of adhesion, non-adhesion, immiscibility.

Incoherence (Substantives), looseness, laxity, slackness, relaxation, freedom, disjunction.

(Phrases). A rope of sand; disjecta membra.

(Verbs). To loosen, make loose, slacken, relax, unglue, unsolder, etc., detach, untwist, unravel, unroll, etc. 44, 313.

To comminute 330.

(Adjectives). Incoherent, immiscible, detached, non-adhesive, loose, slack, lax, relaxed, baggy.

Segregated, flapping, streaming, dishevelled, unincorporated, unconsolidated, uncombined, etc., like grains of sand.

• Combination (Substantives), union, unification, synthesis, incorporation, amalgamation, coalescence, crasis, fusion, synthesis, conflation, absorption, blending, centralisation.

Compound, composition, amalgam, impregnation.

(Verbs). To combine, unite, unify, incorporate, amalgamate, synthesise, embody, unify, reembody, blend, merge, fuse, absorb, melt into one, consolidate, coalesce, centralise; to impregnate, to put together, to lump together.

(Adjectives). Combined, etc., coalescent, synthetic, synthetical, impregnated with, engrained.