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 |
fatigue duty fatigue | labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on), the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson, they were assigned to kitchen fatigues |
intrinsic fraud | fraud (as by use of forged documents or false claims or perjury) that misleads a court or jury and induces a finding for the one perpetrating the fraud |
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 |
collector's item showpiece piece de resistance | the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection |
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 |
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) |
fatigue | (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something, he was suffering from museum fatigue, after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue, the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue, political fatigue |
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 |
fatigue party | a group of soldiers on fatigue duty |
underground resistance | a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force |
fatigue crack | a crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue |
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 |
resistance unit | the reciprocal of conductance |
fatigue weariness tiredness c | temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work, he was hospitalized for extreme fatigue, growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills, weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep |
fatigue fracture stress fracture | fracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury |
battle fatigue combat fatigue combat neurosis shell shock | a mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare |
fatigue | used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress, metal fatigue |
resistance | 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 |
immunity resistance | (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease |
intrinsic factor | a substance produced by the mucosa of the stomach and intestines that is essential for the absorption of vitamin B, lack of intrinsic factor can result in pernicious anemia |
c tire wear upon tire out wear weary jade wear out outwear wear down fag out fag fatigue c | exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress, We wore ourselves out on this hike |
tire pall weary fatigue jade | lose interest or become bored with something or somebody, I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food |
intrinsic | situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts, intrinsic muscles |
intrinsic intrinsical | belonging to a thing by its very nature, form was treated as something intrinsic, as the very essence of the thing- John Dewey |