| 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 |
antibiotic
antibiotic drug | a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections, when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs |
| antineoplastic antibiotic | an antibiotic drug used as an antineoplastic in chemotherapy |
collector's item
showpiece
piece de resistance | the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection |
| penicillinaseesistant antibiotic | a form of penicillin that is not rendered inactive by penicillinase |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| antibiotic | of or relating to antibiotic drugs |