Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To take action in opposition to; try to eliminate, reduce, or stop: synonym: oppose.
- intransitive verb To take action to defeat or thwart (an invading or occupying military force).
- intransitive verb To remain unaltered, undamaged, or unaffected by; withstand.
- intransitive verb To provide resistance to (an electrical current).
- intransitive verb To keep from giving in to, engaging in, or enjoying.
- intransitive verb To offer resistance.
- noun A substance that can cover and protect a surface, as from corrosion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To withstand; oppose passively or actively; antagonize; act against; exert physical or moral force in opposition to.
- To be disagreeable or distasteful to; offend.
- Synonyms Withstand, etc. See
oppose . - To make opposition; act in opposition.
- noun Any composition applied to a surface to protect it from chemical action, as to enable it to resist the corrosion of acids, etc.
- noun Specifically, in calico-printing, a sort of paste applied to a fabric to prevent color or mordant from fixing on those parts not intended to be colored, either by acting mechanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers. Also called resist-paste, resistant, and reserve.
- noun A stopping-out; also, the material used for stopping out.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To make opposition.
- transitive verb To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
- transitive verb To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
- transitive verb To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
- transitive verb obsolete To be distasteful to.
- noun (Calico Printing) A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers; -- also called
reserve . The pastes prepared for this purpose are calledresist pastes . - noun (Technology) Something that resists or prevents a certain action
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
attempt tocounter theactions oreffects of. - verb transitive To
withstand the actions of. - verb intransitive To
oppose .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- verb express opposition through action or words
- verb refuse to comply
- verb elude, especially in a baffling way
- verb withstand the force of something
- verb stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The "sinful temptation" that Christians are forever urging LGBT people to resist is love.
John Shore: 'Just Resist The Temptation': The Anti-Love Approach To Homosexuality John Shore 2010
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The "sinful temptation" that Christians are forever urging LGBT people to resist is love.
John Shore: 'Just Resist The Temptation': The Anti-Love Approach To Homosexuality John Shore 2010
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And the food that I can't resist is never the healthy stuff.
Archive 2009-06-14 Tyler 2009
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What we resist is concluding that devices like the Kindle may the solution.
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The "sinful temptation" that Christians are forever urging LGBT people to resist is love.
John Shore: 'Just Resist The Temptation': The Anti-Love Approach To Homosexuality John Shore 2010
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And the food that I can't resist is never the healthy stuff.
What's your food Kryptonite? Tyler 2009
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The "sinful temptation" that Christians are forever urging LGBT people to resist is love.
John Shore: 'Just Resist The Temptation:' The Anti-Love Approach To Homosexuality John Shore 2010
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What I resist is the "disposition" function -- that is, the theory that says * whatever* the prior precedent says (that is, irrespective of how one evaluates the prior precedent), it controls.
Balkinization 2007
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What I resist is the "disposition" function -- that is, the theory that says * whatever* the prior precedent says (that is, irrespective of how one evaluates the prior precedent), it controls.
Balkinization 2007
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What few of us do, and what atonality causes in us that we so resist, is to react physically to music.
More on music M-mv 2005
reesetee commented on the word resist
In glassmaking, a noun referring to a substance that resists or prevents a particular action. During the process of acid etching or sandblasting, parts of the surface are protected with a resist.
November 9, 2007