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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



... and asked about the journeyings of men thereabouts. A little while after they saw a ship coming from the west across the firth, and soon they saw who the men were, for there were the sons of Thorhalla, and Halldor and his followers boarded them straightway. They met with no resistance, for the sons of Olaf leapt forthwith on board their ships and set upon them. Stein and his brother were laid hands on and beheaded overboard. The sons of Olaf now turn back, and their journey was deemed ...
— Laxdaela Saga - Translated from the Icelandic • Anonymous
... by all who thought they had to gain by the degradation of their fellows or who had been ground so low that they would cut each other's throats for a crust or who, in their blind ignorance, misunderstood what it all meant. And there were wild reports afloat of resistance brooding in Queensland and of excited meetings in the bush and of troops being sent to disperse the bushmen's camps. Why did they endure these things, Nellie thought, watching and waiting, as impotent to aid them as she was to save the baby dying now beside ...
— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller
... growing up with the tongue and manners of a lady. It can scarcely have been a light trial to the mother to know that contact with her was regarded as her child's greatest danger; but in her humility and her love for Marian she offered no resistance. And so it came to pass that one day the little girl, hearing her mother make some flagrant grammatical error, turned to the other parent and asked gravely: 'Why doesn't mother speak as properly as we do?' Well, that is one of the results of such marriages, one of the myriad miseries ...
— New Grub Street • George Gissing
... by the neck, and jammed the sticky pie crust on his face, where it stuck like an adhesive plaster. Jimmie, taken by surprise, and rendered nerveless by the pangs of an accusing conscience, made no resistance, but set up a howl that attracted the attention of the master ...
— Glengarry Schooldays • Ralph Connor
... the development and use of his musical ability instead of stifling and ignoring this valuable religious asset and rendering the boy, so far forth, useless to and estranged from the purposes and activities of the church. In church music the paid quartette alone means the way of least resistance and of least benefit, and it is a harmful device if it means the failure of the church to enlist boys in the rare religious development to be achieved in sacred song and in participation in public worship. It is to be regretted that hymns suited to boyhood experience are very ...
— The Minister and the Boy • Allan Hoben


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