0 to persuade someone gently to do something or go somewhere, by being kind and patient, or by appearing to be:
1 to try to persuade someone to do something by gently asking or patiently encouraging the person:
He’ll talk if you coax him.
For example, can manipulative mutants producing high quantities of signal be isolated and shown to benefit, at least at low frequency, from coaxing extra cooperation from their neighbours?
Evocatively silhouetted in profile, as artist and instrument seemed for an extended moment to fuse into a single entity, he coaxed some husky, blues-inflected tunings at pianissimo levels.
These cells have the ability not only to proliferate in bone but to coax osteoblasts and osteoclasts to produce factors within the bone microenvironment that further stimulate cancer cell growth.
Here, the visual landscape is a veneer, a thin edge drawn over the piled debris of the past that still thwarts attempts to coax the land into fertility and growth.
They can only knock and ring bells to coax her out to perform for her eager public.
As doers actively involved in coaxing machines into doing our bidding, we appreciate the problem.
Some operators are better at coaxing the machine than others.
He gracefully coaxes us to abandon a cherished belief: that our actions revolve around willfulness within the conscious universe of the brain/mind.
