ADHERENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adherent mean? 

• ADHERENT (noun)
  The noun ADHERENT has 1 sense:

1. someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another

  Familiarity information: ADHERENT used as a noun is very rare.

• ADHERENT (adjective)
  The adjective ADHERENT has 1 sense:

1. sticking fast

  Familiarity information: ADHERENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADHERENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

adherent; disciple

Hypernyms ("adherent" is a kind of...):

follower (a person who accepts the leadership of another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adherent"):

diabolist; Satanist (an adherent of Satan or Satanism)

Druse; Druze (an adherent of an esoteric monotheistic religious sect living in the relative security of the mountains of Syria and Lebanon who believes that Al-hakim was an incarnation of God)

dualist (an adherent of dualism)

Hussite (an adherent of the religious reforms of John Huss)

Ismaili; Ismailian (an adherent of Ismailism; a member of the Ismaili branch of Shiism)

Lutheran (follower of Lutheranism)

Mahdist (an adherent of Mahdism)

Manichaean; Manichean; Manichee (an adherent of Manichaeism)

Monophysite (an adherent of Monophysitism)

Neoplatonist (an adherent of Neoplatonism)

Donatist (an adherent of Donatism)

Sikh (an adherent of Sikhism)

Socinian (an adherent of the teachings of Socinus; a Christian who rejects the divinity of Christ and the Trinity and original sin; influenced the development of Unitarian theology)

totalitarian (an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government)

Unitarian (adherent of Unitarianism)

Trinitarian (adherent of Trinitarianism)

Arminian (adherent of Arminianism)

votary (a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity)

fundamentalist (an adherent of fundamentalist principles)

Zoroastrian (follower of Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism)

Mahayanist (an adherent of Mahayana Buddhism)

Hinayanist (an adherent of Hinayana Buddhism)

Lamaist ((Buddhism) an adherent of Lamaism)

Tantrist (an adherent of Tantrism)

Jainist (a believer in Jainism)

Shintoist (a believer in Shintoism)

Rasta; Rastafarian (follower of Rastafarianism)

Mithraist (adherent of Mithraism)

Zen Buddhist (an adherent of the doctrines of Zen Buddhism)

absolutist (one who advocates absolutism)

amoralist (someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid)

animist (one who accepts the doctrine of animism)

antinomian (a follower of the doctrine of antinomianism)

Apostle ((New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel)

Aristotelean; Aristotelian; Peripatetic (a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism)

Bahai (a teacher of or believer in Bahaism)

Tao; Taoist (an adherent of any branch of Taoism)

clericalist (one who advocates clericalism)

Instance hyponyms:

Baruch (a disciple of and secretary for the prophet Jeremiah)

Derivation:

adhere (be a devoted follower or supporter)

• ADHERENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sticking fast

Similar:

adhesive (tending to adhere)

Derivation:

adhere (come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation)

adhere (stick to firmly)

adherence (the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition)

 Context examples 

Lymph nodes adherent to each other, usually a result of tumor spread.

(Matted Lymph Nodes, NCI Thesaurus)

It is mostly fused with the outer layer, the endocranium that is adherent to the inner aspect of the cranial bones.

(Meningeal Layer of the Dura Mater, NCI Thesaurus)

It is the epithelium cell that produces mucin gel adherent to the mucosal surface.

(Mucus-Secreting Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

But he was as cunning as he was cruel, and at the first whisper of coming trouble he had secretly conveyed his treasures aboard a ship which was manned by devoted adherents.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A leukocyte adherent to CAMs on the endothelial cells moves forward by leading-edge protrusion and retraction of its tail.

(Leukocyte Transendothelial Migration Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The eggs (nits) of head lice can be mistaken for dandruff, but they are adherent to the hair shafts.

(Human Head Louse, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgical removal of multiple adjacent, frequently adherent, inguinal lymph nodes.

(Block Dissection of Inguinal Lymph Nodes, NCI Thesaurus)

It is the alkaloid caffeine, with a portion of adherent citric acid, as indicated by its pharmacopoeial name (citrated caffeine).

(Caffeine Citrate, NCI Thesaurus)

A population of adherent cells in bone marrow cultures that resemble fibroblasts.

(Colony-Forming Unit-Fibroblasts, NCI Thesaurus)

The decidual cells form a tightly adherent, massive cellular matrix that first surrounds the implanting embryo and later occupies most of the endometrium.

(Decidual Cell, NCI Thesaurus)