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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



... of an hour, the cocoanut trees and the low-lying land were visible from the deck. The feeling that the end of the PYRENEES' resistance was imminent weighed heavily on everybody. Captain Davenport had the three boats lowered and dropped short astern, a man in each to keep them apart. The Pyrenees closely skirted the shore, the surf-whitened atoll a bare two ...
— South Sea Tales • Jack London
... Don't. Don't touch me!" she cried, rising in turn, for resistance. She kept her mind fixed upon the expected rewards of her project, and so ...
— Philip Winwood • Robert Neilson Stephens
... rascal offered no resistance. Instead, he came down the steps backward, and fell on his back on the sidewalk, his hat rolling ...
— The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview • Ralph Bonehill
... as much, Sir Gervaise—I thought your secretary could never lean to the doctrine of 'passive obedience and non-resistance.' That's a principle which would hardly ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper
... to close quarters we may premise a question. If the carefully prepared sermon cost as little trouble as the extemporary effort, would the world ever have heard of this discussion? Oh! the fatal tendency to move on the lines of least resistance, to glide on the downward slope, and when we have reached the bottom to manufacture arguments and apologies justifying the course we selected! When the question is probed to the bottom you will find that all advocacy ...
— The Young Priest's Keepsake • Michael Phelan


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