cohere vs link

cohere

verb
  • To stick together physically, by adhesion. 

  • To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose. 

link

verb
  • To connect two or more things. 

  • To meet with someone. 

  • To contain a hyperlink to another page. 

  • To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link. 

  • To demonstrate a correlation between two things. 

  • To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable. 

  • To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly. 

  • To post a hyperlink to. 

noun
  • One element of a chain or other connected series. 

  • Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained. 

  • The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream. 

  • The connection between buses or systems. 

  • a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills. 

  • A space comprising one or more disjoint knots. 

  • A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction. 

  • An introductory cue. 

  • Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion. 

  • The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length. 

  • Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain. 

  • A sausage that is not a patty. 

  • A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas. 

  • an individual person or element in a system 

How often have the words cohere and link occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )