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Adhere

verb

(past & past part. adhered; pres. part. adhering)

Be compatible or in accordance with.

Follow through or carry out a plan without deviation.

Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation. Synonyms: cleave, cling, cohere, stick. "The label stuck to the box" , "The sushi rice grains cohere"

Be a devoted follower or supporter. Synonym: stick. "She sticks to her principles"

Be loyal to. Synonyms: stand by, stick, stick by. "The friends stuck together through the war"

Stick to firmly. Synonyms: bind, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to.

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... precipitates which will stand a higher temperature are dried in the hot-air oven at a temperature of from 120 to 150. The drying is continued until they appear to be free from moisture, and until the precipitate ceases to adhere to the filter. In drying sulphides the heat must not be raised to the melting point of sulphur, since, if there is any free sulphur present, it ...

— A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. • Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

... growers have built up quite a reputation for themselves in choice, hand-picked fruit, which they ship to special customers in distant markets. For this purpose the James variety is usually grown because the berries adhere well and are of good size and flavor. Several growers ship as far north as New York and Boston, getting from $2.00 to $2.50 gross per bushel crate. In shipping, three styles of carriers are used—the 24-box strawberry ...

— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick

... are my views. There are a number, an increasing number, of books that are decidedly to him not useful. (Hear.) But he will learn also that a certain number of books were written by a supreme, noble kind of people—not a very great number—but a great number adhere more or less to that side of things. In short, as I have written it down somewhere else, I conceive that books are like men's souls—divided into sheep and goats. (Laughter and applause.) Some of them are calculated to be of very great advantage in teaching—in ...

— On the Choice of Books • Thomas Carlyle

... of local at the expense of the central authority. The increasing debility of the paternal government tended to strengthen the power of the provincial Magnates; and the Beys, the Spahis, and the Timariots, stars of lesser magnitude in their way, could not but be expected to adhere to the cause of the all-powerful Kapetans rather than to the transient power of a Vizier appointed by ...

— Herzegovina - Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels • George Arbuthnot

... passed south of it. Sherman, with sixty or seventy thousand men, was moving on the high ground between the Savannah and Ogeechee Rivers; and as this afforded a dry, sandy road direct to Savannah, where he would most readily meet the Federal fleet, it was probable that he would adhere to it. He might cross the Savannah river forty or fifty miles above and march on Charleston, but this was hardly to be expected; for, in addition to the river named, there were several others and a difficult country to pass before ...

— Destruction and Reconstruction: - Personal Experiences of the Late War • Richard Taylor

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