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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: opposition |
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Related Words: action, anti-takeover defense, lockout, reaction |
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(noun) the military action of resisting the enemy's advance; "the enemy offered little resistance" |
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Related Words: action, military action |
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(noun) group action in opposition to those in power |
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Related Words: confrontation, contravention, defiance, dispute, dissent, group action, insubordination, objection, obstructionism, opposition, protest, rebellion, rebelliousness, sales resistance |
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(noun) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness |
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Related Words: unwillingness |
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(noun) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion |
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Related Words: acoustic impedance, acoustic reactance, acoustic resistance, drag, friction, mechanical phenomenon, retarding force, rubbing |
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(noun) the condition in which an organism can resist disease |
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Related Words: immunity, unsusceptibility |
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(noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current |
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Synonyms: resistor |
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Related Words: ballast resistor, barretter, electrical device, potential divider, rheostat, variable resistor, voltage divider |
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(noun) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force |
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Synonyms: underground |
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Related Words: Maquis, revolutionary group |
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(noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms |
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Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistivity |
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Related Words: electrical phenomenon, ohmage |
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