| resistance opposition | the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with, he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens, despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead |
line of least resistance
path of least resistance | the easiest way, In marrying him she simply took the path of least resistance |
least effort
least resistance | the least effortful way to do something |
| resistance | the military action of resisting the enemy's advance, the enemy offered little resistance |
| resistance | group action in opposition to those in power |
| sales resistance | resistance by potential customers to aggressive selling practices |
passive resistance
nonviolent resistance
nonviolence | peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate |
| airbrake dive brake | a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft |
| brake | a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle |
| brake | anything that slows or hinders a process, she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage, new legislation will put the brakes on spending |
| brake band | a band that can be tightened around a shaft to stop its rotation |
brake cylinder
hydraulic brake cylinder
master cylinder | a cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston |
| brake disk | a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel, pressure is applied to it by the brake pads |
brake drum
drum | a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes |
| brake lining | the lining on the brake shoes that comes in contact with the brake drum |
| brake pad | one of the pads that apply friction to both sides of the brake disk |
| brake pedal | foot pedal that moves a piston in the master brake cylinder |
brake shoe
shoe skid | a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation |
brake system
brakes | a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle |
| coaster brake | a brake on a bicycle that engages with reverse pressure on the pedals |
collector's item
showpiece
piece de resistance | the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection |
disk brake
disc brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads |
| drum brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe |
| foot brake | hydraulic brake operated by pressing on a foot pedal |
hand brake
emergency
emergency brake
parking brake | a brake operated by hand, usually operates by mechanical linkage |
hydraulic brake
hydraulic brakes | brake system in which a brake pedal moves a piston in the master cylinder, brake fluid then applies great force to the brake pads or shoes |
| power brake | a brake on an automobile that magnifies a small force applied to the brake pedal into a proportionately larger force applied to slow or stop the vehicle |
| resistance pyrometer | pyrometer that measures high temperatures by the resistance in a heated wire |
resistance thermometer
platinum thermometer | thermometer that measures temperature by changes in the resistance of a spiral of platinum wire |
resistor
resistance | an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current |
| shooting brake | another name for a station wagon |
| resistance | (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness |
| resistance | the degree of unresponsiveness of a diseaseausing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillinesistant bacteria) |
| stoplight brake light | a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop |
| brake failure | brakes fail to stop a vehicle |
| piece de resistance | the most important dish of a meal |
First of October Antifascist Resistance Group
GRAPO | an armed wing of the (illegal) Communist Party of Spain, seeks to overthrow the Spanish government and replace it with a Marxist-Leninist regime, GRAPO is vehemently opposed to the United States |
Hamas
Islamic Resistance Movement | a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon, seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel, is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel, pioneered suicide bombing |
| Lord's Resistance Army | a quasieligious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army |
underground
resistance | a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force |
| brake | an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant |
| resistance | any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion |
electric resistance
electrical resistance
impedance
resistance resistivity
ohmic resistance | a material's opposition to the flow of electric current, measured in ohms |
acoustic resistance
acoustic impedance
acoustic reactance | opposition to the flow of sound through a surface, acoustic resistance is the real component of acoustic impedance and acoustic reactance is the imaginary component |
rock polypody
rock brake American wall fern
Polypodium virgianum | chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia |
bracken pasture brake
brake Pteridium aquilinum | large coarse fern often several feet high, essentially weed ferns, cosmopolitan |
Christmas fern
canker brake
dagger fern
evergreen wood fern Polystichum acrostichoides | North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds |
| rock brake | dwarf deciduous lithophytic ferns |
American rock brake
American parsley fern
Cryptogramma acrostichoides | rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley |
cliff brake
cliff-brake
rock brake | any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions |