| 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 |
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 |
| structural member | support that is a constituent part of any structure or building |
| 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) |
penis
phallus
member | the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism) |
extremity
appendage
member | an external body part that projects from the body, it is important to keep the extremities warm |
uninominal system
uninominal voting system
single-member system
scrutin uninomial system
scrutin uninominal voting system | based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district |
| 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 |
| member | an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations), the library was a member of the interlibrary loan association, Canada is a member of the United Nations |
underground
resistance | a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force |
| member bank | a bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System |
academician
academic
faculty member | an educator who works at a college or university |
| charter member | one of the original members when an organization was founded |
churchgoer
church member | a religious person who goes to church regularly |
| committee member | a member of a committee |
council member
councillor | a member of a council |
| crewman crew member | a member of a flight crew |
member
fellow member | one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization), only members will be admitted, a member of the faculty, she was introduced to all the members of his family |
| board member | a member of a governing board |
clansman
clanswoman
clan member | a member of a clan |
| club member | someone who is a member of a club |
| Parliamentarian Member of Parliament | an elected member of the British Parliament: a member of the House of Commons |
staff member
staffer | an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States) |
trade unionist
unionist
union member | a worker who belongs to a trade union |
| 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 |
| member | anything that belongs to a set or class, snakes are members of the class Reptilia, members of the opposite sex |
| 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 |
uninominal
one-member | based on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature), a uninominal electoral system |