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  2. Cohesion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Repetition uses the same word, or synonyms, antonyms, etc. For example, "Which dress are you going to wear?" – "I will wear my green frock," uses the synonyms "dress" and "frock" for lexical cohesion. Collocation uses related words that typically go together or tend to repeat the same meaning. An example is the phrase "once upon a time".

  3. Glossary of physics - Wikipedia

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    adhesion is what makes things stick together. It's the force that allows tape to stick to a surface or glue to hold two objects together. Contrast cohesion. adiabatic cooling adiabatic heating adiabatic process A process which occurs without transfer of heat or mass of substances between a thermodynamic system and its surroundings.

  4. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    "When two Sundays come together" [6] "If the sky falls, we shall catch larks" means that it is pointless to worry about things that will never happen. [7] "On the thirtieth of February", impossible in the Gregorian or Julian calendar, although it did occur in the Swedish calendar of 1712.

  5. Strong interaction - Wikipedia

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    On a scale less than about 0.8 fm (roughly the radius of a nucleon), the force is carried by gluons and holds quarks together to form protons, neutrons, and other hadrons. On a larger scale, up to about 3 fm, the force is carried by mesons and binds nucleons ( protons and neutrons ) together to form the nucleus of an atom . [ 2 ]

  6. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    Structural section of a vessel that joins together the hulls of a multihulled vessel. alee 1. On the lee side of a ship. 2. To leeward. all hands A ship's entire company, including both officers and enlisted personnel. [3] all night in Having no night watches. all standing Bringing a person or thing up short; i.e. an unforeseen and sudden stop. [9]

  7. Binder (material) - Wikipedia

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    Binders hold together pigments and sometimes filling material to form paints, pastels, and other materials used for artistic and utilitarian painting. Materials include wax , linseed oil , natural gums such as gum arabic or gum tragacanth , methyl cellulose , or proteins such as egg white or casein .

  8. Opinion - Can Trump hold his disparate coalition together?

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    A Catch-22 of politics is the fact that once you start governing and making decisions, you’re almost guaranteed to alienate some of the people who put you in office in the first place.

  9. Interpersonal ties - Wikipedia

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    In other words, the B–C tie, according to this logic, is always present, whether weak or strong, given the other two strong ties. In this direction, the "weak tie hypothesis" postulates that clumps or cliques of social structure will form, being bound predominately by "strong ties", and that "weak ties" will function as the crucial bridge ...