contact | close interaction, they kept in daily contact, they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings |
eye contact | contact that occurs when two people look directly at each other, a teacher should make eye contact with the students |
contact physical contact | the act of touching physically, her fingers came in contact with the light switch |
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 |
contact sport | a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players |
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 |
initial public offering IPO initial offering | a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public |
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 |
contact tangency | (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact, they forget to solder the contacts |
contact contact lens | a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication |
contact print | a print made by exposing a photosensitive surface to direct contact with a photographic negative |
electrical contact | contact that allows current to pass from one conductor to another |
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 |
wiper wiper arm contact arm | contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet |
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) |
liaison link contact inter-group communication | a channel for communication between groups, he provided a liaison with the guerrillas |
initial | the first letter of a word (especially a person's name), he refused to put the initials FRS after his name |
eye contact | a meeting of the eyes between two people that expresses meaningful nonverbal communication, it was a mere glance, but the eye contact was enough to tell her that he was desperate to leave |
alliteration initial rhyme beginning rhyme head rhyme | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse, around the rock the ragged rascal ran |
contact touch | a communicative interaction, the pilot made contact with the base, he got in touch with his colleagues |
contact impinging striking | the physical coming together of two or more things, contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull |
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 |
contact middleman | a person who is in a position to give you special assistance, he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor |
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 |
catalysis contact action | acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction, of the topcommodity chemicals,are created directly by catalysis and another are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced |
resistance unit | the reciprocal of conductance |
contact dermatitis | a delayed type of allergic reaction of the skin resulting from skin contact with a specific allergen (such as poison ivy) |
contact | the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity, litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid |
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 |
reach get through get hold of contact | be in or establish communication with, Our advertisements reach millions, He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia |
initial | mark with one's initials |
touch adjoin meet contact | be in direct physical contact with, make contact, The two buildings touch, Their hands touched, The wire must not contact the metal cover, The surfaces contact at this point |
fly contact | fly a plane by using visible landmarks or points of reference |
initial | occurring at the beginning, took the initial step toward reconciliation |