cling

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit
• Syn:
clingstone
• Hypernyms:
edible fruit

II - verb

1. come or be in close contact with;
stick or hold together and resist separation (Freq. 9)
- The dress clings to her body
- The label stuck to the box
- The sushi rice grains cohere
• Syn:
cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
• Derivationally related forms:
cohesive (for: cohere), coherent (for: cohere), cohesion (for: cohere), coherency (for: cohere), coherence (for: cohere), adherent (for: adhere), adhesion (for: adhere)
• Hypernyms:
touch, adjoin, meet, contact
• Hyponyms:
mold, conglutinate, agglutinate
• Verb Group:
adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to
• Entailment:
attach
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s PP
2. to remain emotionally or intellectually attached (Freq. 5)
- He clings to the idea that she might still love him.
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
3. hold on tightly or tenaciously (Freq. 2)
- hang on to your father's hands
- The child clung to his mother's apron
• Syn:
hang
• Hypernyms:
grasp, hold on
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  clingstone, hang, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere