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Resistance   /rɪzˈɪstəns/  /rizˈɪstəns/   Listen
Resistance

noun
1.
The action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with.  Synonym: opposition.  "Despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead"
2.
Any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion.
3.
A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms.  Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistivity.
4.
The military action of resisting the enemy's advance.
5.
(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease.  Synonym: immunity.
6.
The capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents.
7.
A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force.  Synonym: underground.
8.
The degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria).
9.
(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness.
10.
An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current.  Synonym: resistor.
11.
Group action in opposition to those in power.



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"Resistance" Quotes from Famous Books



... resistance, but only flitted up like a bird, in some unaccountable way, to a limb of a tree, where she sat ...
— Prince Vance - The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box • Eleanor Putnam
... situation, Nelson stood out well. He was generous, sympathetic, and helpful. The fact that he was inclined to pursue the way of least resistance, and considered it right to "let well enough alone," did not impress one so ...
— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long
... armed and in readiness, and dispersed in different parts of the ship, some on deck, some between decks, and others in the gunroom, to arrest and disarm the traitors; and when the concerted signal was given, this was instantly accomplished, to their great astonishment, yet without resistance. ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr
... than a foot in depth. Here the first point, where the mound was, protected it from the wind and sea. This was the cove which he had noticed. The water was all white with foam, but offered scarcely any resistance to him. He had but to ...
— Cord and Creese • James de Mille
... wind seemed to blow on her with a touch of deference... As for Sue and me when we were at our own best, long ago—when our minds were clear, and our love of truth fearless—the time was not ripe for us! Our ideas were fifty years too soon to be any good to us. And so the resistance they met with brought reaction in her, and recklessness and ruin on me! ... There—this, Mrs. Edlin, is how I go on to myself continually, as I lie here. I ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy


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