What's the difference between cohesive and linchpin?
Cohesive
Definition:
(a.) Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.
(a.) Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.
Example Sentences:
(1) What's to become of Tibetan stability and cohesion then is anyone's guess.
(2) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(3) Analysis of bond values of glass ionomer added to glass ionomer indicate bond variability and low cohesive bond strength of the material.
(4) A comparison of two different restriction enzymes, which cleave the plasmid with blunt or cohesive-ended double-strand breaks, did not reveal differences in repair fidelity.
(5) Indeed, with the pageantry already knocked off the top of the news by reports from Old Trafford, the very idea of a cohesive coalition programme about anything other than cuts looks that bit harder to sustain.
(6) Cells with a mutation in their social motility system were 5- to 10-fold less cohesive and tended to glide as single cells.
(7) "It causes a great deal of concern and is very problematic for social cohesion when people find they aren't provided with any preference when they are actually in the area they have lived in for a very long time," he told the Sunday Times.
(8) It found some pressure on primary school places and housing similar to the effect of immigration from other countries but "little hard evidence regarding problems with community cohesion".
(9) Japan has chosen social cohesion over the quick-fix cures popular among Anglo-American economists.
(10) Since DG I belongs to the group of transmembrane desmosomal proteins that is believed to constitute the link between the intracellular parts of desmosomes of opposing cells, it is concluded that desmosomes may play an important role in plantar stratum corneum cell cohesion, and that degradation of desmosomes may be an important step in desquamation in plantar epidermis.
(11) A factor analysis of the family questionnaire indeed yielded three more evaluative constructs: conflict, cohesion, and disorganization.
(12) Cytologic preparations from patients with OTLMP contained large, cohesive papillary fragments with smooth borders.
(13) Terminase, the DNA packaging enzyme of phage lambda, binds to lambda DNA at a site called cosB, and introduces staggered nicks at an adjacent site, cosN, to generate the cohesive ends of virion lambda DNA molecules.
(14) This study was designed to test the circumplex model of family systems that hypothesizes moderate family cohesion and moderate adaptability to be more functional than either extreme.
(15) The paper ends by citing the advantages Infancy as a developmental period has in providing reference points for the understanding of cohesion within development.
(16) Extensive interdigitation of cytoplasmic extensions and extended villi was present in mucinous and serous clusters which appeared to strengthen cluster cohesiveness.
(17) Once more the opportunity arose from a lack of cohesion down City’s left, Victor Wanyama breaking up play in midfield and feeding Tadic, who advanced and slipped a precise ball between Kolarov and Eliaquim Mangala to Mané, who emphatically finished past Hart.
(18) The findings indicate that the Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory (except the hostile control subscale), the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale (open communication subscale only), and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales II appear to have sufficient cross-ethnic equivalence for English-speaking Hispanic samples.
(19) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.
(20) They had also told of a lack of community cohesion and a loss of faith and connectedness to the Catholic church communities.
Linchpin
Definition:
(n.) A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ferdinand says the state of Louis van Gaal’s defence is such that Stones would immediately become its linchpin but that the former Barnsley player may not be ready to dislodge John Terry or Gary Cahill from Chelsea’s backline.
(2) He might have done many more if he wasn’t a multi-millionaire and a linchpin of the economy in his home state of Nevada.
(3) His criteria for determining the national interest, the stated linchpin of his decision-making about launching a war, went unarticulated.
(4) Over the weekend, business leaders spoke to German newspapers to back Cryan’s efforts to turn around Deutsche, which is a linchpin of the national economy.
(5) While the congregation has been shrinking in recent years, United in Christ is a linchpin for the community offering free food on Wednesday afternoons.
(6) According to the New York Times , the American middle class – the linchpin of the country's phenomenal postwar economic growth – can no longer call itself the richest in the world.
(7) Insiders who spoke to the Journal allege that out of the 240 kinds of tests it currently performs, the “pinprick” technology lauded as the linchpin of their strategy was only used for a tiny fraction of its testing .
(8) Gareth Barry, one of the linchpins of the previous era, was not even on the bench.
(9) The current study provides a linchpin between the studies of adolescent suicide attempt rates and the studies reporting on percentages of adolescents who made suicide attempts.
(10) He also defended his record as mayor, which has been a linchpin of his potential presidential bid, while linking the recent events to a broader societal critique.
(11) Despite her reputation as an art house linchpin, Swinton has regularly appeared in genre fare.
(12) Stephens plays Rob, the linchpin of a group of young friends in the fictional village of Overton.
(13) The linchpin of oncologic statistics might well be thought to be classification based upon the hope that comparisons of natural history and treatment regimes could be compared and controlled worldwide.
(14) Cowell has become the king of prime-time TV in the US on the back of the phenomenal success of American Idol, where he is the linchpin of the judging panel.
(15) Platt was one of many overlooked linchpins of the grime scene, and Channel U was radical at a time when black British artists weren’t being readily supported on mainstream channels, radio or labels.
(16) The nurse manager is becoming a key player in hospitals' efforts to satisfy patient needs, hold down costs and maximize efficiency; indeed, this "linchpin" manager is being given authority over budgeting, capital equipment expenditures, employee evaluations and patient care outcomes.
(17) In the first weeks after Snowden disclosed the phone records mass collection to the Guardian, the NSA’s leadership publicly portrayed it as a linchpin to stop future terrorist attacks inside the US.
(18) With the WTO's broader Doha round negotiations at an impasse, delegates hope that an agreement on trade facilitation could serve as the linchpin in a pared-down global trade deal that negotiators are aiming to reach at a high-level meeting in Bali in December.
(19) Sampson in Johannesburg had become the linchpin of the Observer 's Africa coverage.
(20) The drama of that 1944 Democratic convention is one that Stone and Kuznick wrote as a Hitchcockian thriller in the late 1990s before deciding to make it, a decade later, the linchpin of their documentary.