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/ɹɪsˈɪstəns/
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[ US /ɹiˈzɪstəns, ɹɪˈzɪstəns/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈzɪstəns, ɹɪˈzɪstəns/ ]
NOUN
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the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead
he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens - the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
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the military action of resisting the enemy's advance
the enemy offered little resistance - any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
- a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
- group action in opposition to those in power
- (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
- an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
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the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents
these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog - (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
How To Use resistance In A Sentence
- The study also examined blood plasma levels of atazanavir, residual (low-level) viraemia, and drug resistance mutations. Undefined
- The difference in the power of the system to absorb different substances, appropriate whatever can be utilized, and throw off whatever can not be used, is sometimes called idiosyncrasy, but more properly it may be called vital resistance, and upon the integrity of this power rests the ability to combat disease in all its forms, whether it be the absorption of any animal virus or the poison resulting from undigested food. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
- Chartists at once organized resistance to what they called the usurpation and, after a long civil war, were successful. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- So the lands of the dismembered Yugoslav state became not only the scene of Europe's greatest resistance struggle, but also one of its bloodiest civil wars.
- The Communists vastly exaggerated their own Resistance role in order to attract postwar political support.
- Tanks often attacked the outskirts of the city in skirmishes with resistance fighters, adding to the chaos and unrest.
- Less genetic diversity means less resistance to pests, diseases and climate changes.
- There is no reference to the recent critical analyses of management use of, and employee resistance to, the mobilization of feelings.
- The Virgin and Santa Clara rivers snake easily between flat-topped mesas, following paths of least resistance.
- The only factor preventing major incursions into treasured civil liberties is the resistance of the population at large - and, for the moment at least, the public appear to be acquiescing in the government's plans.
