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Definitions: Resistance |
ResistanceNoun1. 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". 2. Any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion. 3. A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms. 4. The military action of resisting the enemy's advance; "the enemy offered little resistance". 5. (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease. 6. A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force. 7. The degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria). 8. (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness. 9. An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current. 10. : group action in opposition to those in power. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "resistance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Aerospace | 1. In electricity, the factor by which the square of the instantaneous conduction current must be multiplied to obtain the power lost by heat dissipation or other permanent radiation of energy away from the electrical current.2. In mechanics, the opposition by frictional effects to forces tending to produce motion.Symbol R. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The quotient of the voltage by the current. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | The ability of allconductors of electricity to resist the flow of current, turning some of it into heat.Resistance depends on the cross section of the conductor (the smaller the crosssection, the greater the resistance) and its temperature (the hotter the cross section,the greater its resistance). (ELECTRICAL). (references) |
| The inherent characteristic of a material to inhibit the transfer of energy. In electrical conductors, electrical resistance results in the generation of heat. Electrical resistance is measured in Ohms. The heat transfer resistance properties of insulation products are quantified as the R-value. (references) | |
| The reciprocal of thermalconductance. See R-VALUE. (THERMAL). (references) | |
Environment | For plants and animals, the ability to withstand poor environmental conditions or attacks by chemicals or disease. May be inborn or acquired. (references) |
Finance | A level above which prices have had difficulty penetrating. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | Can be applied to any criterion connected with any limit-state. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. When an air current flows through a mine it meets with frictional resistance from the roof, sides, and floor. The amount of this resistance depends upon the extent and nature of the rubbing surface, the area of the airways, and the velocity of the air. See also:Atkinson b. In flotation, a property opposing movement of material or flow of energy, and involving loss of potential (voltage, temperature, pressure, and level) c. The property of an electrical circuit that opposes the flow of acurrent and is measured in ohms. Syn:thermal resistance. (references) |
Physics | A)the property of a substance restricting the magnitude of electric current flowing through it(disregarding reactive effects); b)the ratio of the voltage applied to the terminals of an electric component and the current flowing through those terminals. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: ResistanceSynonyms: electric resistance (n), electrical resistance (n), immunity (n), impedance (n), ohmic resistance (n), opposition (n), resistivity (n), resistor (n), underground (n). (additional references) |
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Counteraction | Voluntary opposition; voluntary resistance; repression; (restraint). |
Noun: counteraction, opposition; contrariety; antagonism, polarity; clashing; Verb: collision, interference, inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction; reaction; retroaction; (recoil); counterblast; neutralization; (compensation); vis inertiae; check; (hindrance). | |
Defense | Self-defense, self-preservation; resistance. |
Disobedience | Revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute; riot, tumult; (disorder); strike;(resistance); barring out; defiance. |
Food | Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment. |
Furnace | Noun: furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth, focus, combustion chamber; athanor, hypocaust, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; muffle furnace, induction furnace; electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat. |
Opposition | Absence of aid; resistance; restraint; hindrance. |
Resistance | Noun: resistance, stand, front, oppugnation; oppugnancy; opposition; renitence, renitency; reluctation, recalcitration; kicking; Verb: |
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Screenplays | Batface and Birdbrain showed a remarkable resistance to my love-dust. (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) And I wouldn't be doing my job if I let Dawson and Downey spent any more time in prison than absolutely necessary because their lawyer had predetermined the path of least resistance. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) He has a funny habit of shedding his cells and replacing them with polarized silicon which gives him a prolonged resistance to adverse environmental conditions. (Alien; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett) Further resistance is useless. (Dad's Army; writing credit: David Croft; Jimmy Perry) Well, Humphrey Bogart liked Ingrid Bergman but he gave her up for the good of the Resistance! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) | |
Lyrics | Getting so much resistance from behind ("For What It's Worth"; performing artist: Buffalo Springfield) Never settle for the path of least resistance. (I Hope You Dance; performing artist: LEE AN WOMACK) I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, (The Boxer; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) And my resistance is weakening,weakening everytime we touch. (Don't rush me; performing artist: Taylor Dayne) We can handle some resistance (The Long Run; performing artist: The Eagles) | |
Clever | Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. (references; author: Mark Twain) Sleeping on the job: I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Child of Resistance (1972) Critical Look at the New Left From Protest to Resistance (1968) A Piece of Resistance (1966) Resistance and Ohm's Law (1943) | |
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 | Using recombinant DNA technology, a transgenic mouse has been engineered whose bone marrow is protected from the toxic effects of chemotherapy by expression of the MDR 1 gene. This animal system allows rapid screening of drugs which inhibit the multidrug transporter and heralds a new era of using transgenic animals for pharmacologic screening. Multidrug resistance resulting from expression of an energy-dependent drug efflux pump encoded by the human MDR gene is a major impediment to effective cancer therapy.Credit: Jeannie Kelly (artist). |  | Slide shows researcher using electron spin resonance spectroscopy to examine the role of free radicals in promoting anticancer drug activity as well as in the development of drug resistance.Credit: Bill Branson (Photographer). |
 | Increasing prevalence of high level penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae over time. Streptococci.Credit: CDC. |  | Open water to left, bare tundra to the right Weasel takes path of least resistance over strip of snow.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Thanks to research, carrots, onions, garlic and cucumbers taste better and contain more nutrients. And better crop yields and disease resistance make more of these favorite foods available. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Croix sheep have shown resistance to parasites and tolerance to hot weather. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by ARS.. |
 | To ensure continuing worldwide availability of this valuable food staple, potato plant breeders must unite desirable processing and fresh-market characteristics with late blight resistance. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | St. Croix hair sheep have a high resistance to certain internal parasites such as barberpole stomach worms. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Perry Rech.. |
 | In Salinas, California, geneticist Robert Lewellen (left) and technician Jose Orozco evaluate sugar beet breeding lines for disease resistance. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Root-rotting fungi can weaken, stunt, or kill sugar beet plants. Here, geneticist Leonard Panella evaluates sugar beet plants for resistance to the fungal disease Rhizoctonia root rot. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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Author Unknown | It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. |
John Ruskin | You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature is upheld by antagonisms. Passions, resistance, danger are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome. |
Samuel Butler | Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. |
Thomas Jefferson | Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Thus far that great advocate of monarchical power allows of resistance. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Now, in this case, let the second man make a greater effort at resistance than the first. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Escape and resistance. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma, beside him, had folded her hands in her lap, had retired into a resistance against weariness. |
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Health | Rates of antibiotic resistance in the United States unknown. (references) | |
This gene turns on other genes and results in acid resistance. (references) | ||
Emergence of b-lactam resistance in the United States continues. (references) | ||
Business | The rationalization plan is bound to encounter strong regional resistance. (references) | |
Growth in the business-to-consumer field grew more slowly, primarily because of cultural resistance to shopping over the Internet. (references) | ||
Recent concerns about antibiotic resistance could benefit sales of Echinacea, an herbal used to boost the body's natural resistance. (references) | ||
Children | Nicaragua | However, with assistance from international NGO's, foreign governments, and the public health care system, the Government has procured thousands of prostheses and other medical equipment for veterans and former resistance members. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Sierra Leone | Government attempts to close IDP camps have met with strong resistance from residents who fear that their homes will not be safe. (references) |
Russia | In some cases, religious organizations successfully enlisted the assistance of the judiciary to overcome bureaucratic resistance to their reregistration. (references) | |
Economic History | Indonesia | Dutch efforts to reestablish complete control met strong resistance. (references) |
Ukraine | Resistance against Soviet Government forces continued as late as the 1950s. (references) | |
Mauritania | Over the next 500 years, Arabs overcame fierce Berber resistance to dominate Mauritania. (references) | |
Human Rights | Macedonia | Those beaten offered no resistance and posed no risk to police. (references) |
Russia | Poor ventilation is thought to contribute to cardiac problems and lowered resistance to disease. (references) | |
Russia | Guards reportedly severely discipline prisoners to break down resistance; at times guards humiliated, beat, and starved prisoners. (references) | |
Minorities | East Timor | The mosque members' resistance to the gang's demand for a car reportedly precipitated the violence. (references) |
Japan | Such legislation was submitted to the Diet early in the year, but it was held over for deliberation in the fall extraordinary session due to continued resistance within the ruling coalition. (references) | |
Germany | This has, at times, led to societal discord, such as local resistance to the construction of mosques or disagreements over whether Muslims can use loudspeakers in residential neighborhoods to call the faithful to prayer. (references) | |
Political Economy | MEXICO | The proposed law has run into stiff resistance in Congress and passage is uncertain. (references) |
Somalia | The use of landmines, reportedly by the Rahanwein Resistance Army (RRA), resulted in several deaths. (references) | |
Nicaragua | The civil war formally concluded in June 1990 with the demobilization of the Nicaraguan Resistance (RN, or "Contras"). (references) | |
Political Rights | Kuwait | However, in November 1999, the Parliament vetoed the Amir's May decree, based in part on the Amir having bypassed the Assembly by introducing the change while the Assembly was not in session and in part on traditionalist resistance to women's suffrage. (references) |
Trade | Spain | In March 2000, the regional government annulled the legislation due to strong resistance from film distributors. (references) |
Women | Central African Republic | Polygyny is legal, although this practice faces growing resistance among educated women. (references) |
Worker Rights | Jamaica | Organizers attribute this circumstance to resistance by foreign owners in the zones to organizing efforts, but attempts to organize plants within the zones continue. (references) |
Vietnam | Many contracts have been negotiated that ended the practice of annual renewal, and multiyear contracts have become more common despite initial resistance from foreign companies. (references) | |
Russia | Union membership overall continued to fall as a result of economic restructuring, including the closing of some enterprises and a resistance by some foreign companies to trade union activities. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NEGRO, n. The piece de resistance in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: "Let n = the white man." This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The attempt will meet with resistance where it might otherwise receive support, and instead of strengthening the bonds of our Confederacy it will only multiply and aggravate the causes of disunion. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | To every theory of society or government, whether the offspring of feverish ambition or of morbid enthusiasm, calculated to dissolve the bonds of law and affection which unite us, I shall interpose a ready and stern resistance. |
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| "Resistance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Resistance" is used about 3,713 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3,713 | 2,617 |
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Expressions using "resistance": abrasion resistance ♦ abrasive resistance ♦ acid resistance ♦ acoustic resistance ♦ Activated Protein C Resistance ♦ aerial resistance ♦ air resistance ♦ Airway Resistance ♦ Ampicillin Resistance ♦ anode AC resistance ♦ anode alternating current resistance ♦ antenna circuit resistance ♦ antibiotic resistance gene ♦ antibiotic resistance marker gene ♦ antimicrobial resistance ♦ apparent resistance ♦ area of resistance ♦ beta-Lactam Resistance ♦ Capillary Resistance ♦ Cephalosporin Resistance ♦ Chloramphenicol Resistance ♦ clinical resistance ♦ coefficient of resistance ♦ consumer resistance ♦ cutting resistance ♦ Drug Resistance ♦ Earth resistance ♦ electric resistance ♦ electric resistance heat ♦ electrical resistance ♦ electrode AC resistance ♦ electrode alternating current resistance ♦ electrode DC resistance ♦ electrode direct current resistance ♦ final resistance ♦ flame resistance ♦ frictional resistance ♦ heating resistance collar ♦ heating resistance mat ♦ heating resistance pad ♦ Insecticide Resistance ♦ Insulin Resistance ♦ Kanamycin Resistance ♦ least resistance ♦ line of least resistance ♦ line of resistance ♦ marker of resistance to antibiotics ♦ meet with resistance ♦ Methicillin Resistance ♦ multidrug resistance ♦ multidrug resistance inhibition ♦ nest of resistance ♦ nonviolent resistance ♦ offer no resistance ♦ offer resistance ♦ ohmic base resistance ♦ ohmic collector resistance ♦ ohmic emitter resistance ♦ ohmic resistance ♦ organized resistance ♦ parallel resistance ♦ parasitic drain resistance ♦ passive resistance ♦ path of least resistance ♦ Penicillin Resistance ♦ piece de resistance ♦ piece of resistance ♦ pocket of resistance ♦ PTC thermistor final resistance ♦ resistance box ♦ resistance coil ♦ resistance factor ♦ resistance fighter ♦ resistance frame ♦ resistance marker ♦ resistance measuring ♦ resistance meter ♦ resistance movement ♦ resistance overpotential ♦ resistance overtension ♦ resistance overvoltage ♦ resistance pyrometer ♦ resistance thermometer ♦ resistance to abrasion ♦ resistance to bending ♦ resistance to control ♦ resistance to heat ♦ resistance to water ♦ resistance to wear ♦ resistance unit ♦ sales resistance ♦ scuff resistance ♦ sham resistance ♦ skin resistance ♦ solid of least resistance ♦ specific resistance ♦ surge resistance ♦ tensile resistance ♦ Tetracycline Resistance ♦ Thyroid Hormone Resistance Syndrome ♦ total pulmonary resistance. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "resistance": resistance-capacitance, resistance-inducing, resistance-run, resistance-trained, resistance-transfer. | |
Ending with "resistance": non-resistance. | |
Containing "resistance": fire-resistance test. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "resistance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rezistencë (drag, endurance, rebuff, resistor, stand, toughness), qëndrueshmëri (constancy, durability, firmness, fixity, lasting, permanence, permanency, stability, stamina, stand up), qëndresë (endurance, fastness, fortitude, hardiness, lasting, stamina, stand, stay, tolerance, toughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مناهضة (opposition), ملف مقاومة, مقاومة (fight, impedance, opposition, refractoriness, reluctance, renitency, stamina, stand, strength), معاندة (opposition), صمود (durability, immovability), صلابة (callosity, hardihood, hardness, hards, inflexibility, iron, perseverance, reliability, rigidity, rigorism, singleness, solidity, soundness, stability, steadiness, stiffness, stoutness, strength, stubbornness, tenacity, toughmindness, toughness), المقاومة السرية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съпротива (defence, defense, opposition, reluctance, stand, underground), съпротивление (opposition, resistor, strength), съпротивителен (resistant), устойчивост (endurance, firmness, fixity, immovability, rigidity, stability, vertebration), отпор (letdown, rebuff, repulse, set down, stand), противопоставяне (confrontation, contradistinction, contrast, dichotomy, objection, opposition), противодействие (counteraction, counterwork, opposition, reaction, set down), издръжливост (bottom, endurance, guts, mettle, patience, reliability, sand, sinews, stay, staying power, strength, tenacity, tensility, toughness, vitality, wear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 抵抗 (to resist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | překážka (balk, bar, barrier, blockage, fence, hamper, hazard, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, jump, obstacle, obstruction, restriction, roadblock, rub, snag, trig), odpor (antipathy, aversion, contradiction, disgust, dislike, distaste, nausea, opposition, protest, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, resentment, revulsion), nevodivost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | modstand (aircraft drag, drag, resistor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tegenweer, tegenstand (opposition), tegenkanting. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kontraŭstaro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پایداری (Constancy, Endurance, Permanency, Resist, Stability), مقاومت (Defiance, Opposition), مخالفت (Aversion, Defiance, Gainsay, Objection, Opposition, Remonstrance, Repugnance), سختی (Accolade, Austerity, Buckram, Difficulty, Duration, Duress, Granite, Hardship, Implacability, Inflexibility, Privation, Rigidity, Severity, Solidity, Stress, Tenacity, Violence), عایق مقاومت , ایستادگی (Persist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vastus (bother, difficulty, drag, hardship, resistance coil, resistor, trouble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | résistance (drug resistance, refractoriness, resilience, resistor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Widerstand (drag, opposition, resisted, resistor, stand, strength, withstood), Resistenz (containment, drug resistance, tolerance), Gegenwehr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αντοχή (durability, endurance, fastness, fortitude, hardihood, hardiness, refractory life, resistibility, service life, steeliness, strength, sturdiness, tolerance, toughness), αντίσταση (drug resistance, durability, electrical impedance, impedance, opposition, rebuff, resist, resistor, strength). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תקומ" (existence, rebirth, recovery, resurrection, revival, stand, uprising), עמי"ות (durability, impregnability, wear), עמי"" בפ י, עמי"" (condition, durability, position, stability, stand, standing), "ת '"ות (antagonism, contradiction, contrariness, dissidence, exception, impugnation, objection, opposition), סבולת (allowance, endurance, stamina, tolerance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ellenkezés (disagreement, opposition, remonstrance, traverse), ellenállási mozgalom (resistance movement, underground movement), ellenállás (capacitance, contrariness, counter-move, drag, kick, opposition, reacting force, rebellion, reluctance, resistor, rheostat, stamina, stand, strength, traverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | perlawanan (opposition, oppugnance, oppugnancy), kebajaan (hardness), daga (civil unrest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | resistenza (drag, drug resistance, durability, endurance, hardiness, hot plate, resistor, stamina, strength, toughness, ultimate stress, wear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 耐性 , 抗争 (dispute), 抵抗 (electrical resistance, opposition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいせい (accomplishment, attainment of greatness or success, attitude, blackish blue, completion, conditions, current thought, decay, decline, general trend, gestation, great sage, ones declining fortunes, one's declining fortunes, opposing pairs, order, organization, posture, preparations, set-up, sovereign power, stance, structure, system, the Occident, the reins of government, the West), レジスタンス , どうつうてい"う, "うそう (conception, confused fighting, dispute, frost, good running, grand, high and dry ground, high priest, hurrying, idea, imperial ancestors, imposing, magnificent, muzzle loading gun, ore bed, plan, plot, public funeral, red algae, rhodophyceae, sailing, school funeral, sending back or sending later, spice used for cooking, upper, virtuous priest), "うきょ (canal, death, demise, ditch, elevation, Imperial Palace, official government permission, opposition, sewer), "うせ" (battle, beam, belligerence, brokerage, college, commission, factory boat, floating cannery, hostilities, light ray, oral statement, public election, steel wire, underground spring, war, well), は"たい (antagonism, contrast, dissension, hostility, objection, opposite, opposition, reverse, vice versa), は""う (circulation, clan school, counteroffensive, crime, criminal act, daimyo, defiance, distribution, feudal lord, han school, hostility, insubordination, offence, opposition, printing, promulgation, publishing, rebellion, sealling), てい"うりょく, てい"う (electrical resistance, opposition), て"たえ (effect, reaction, response), てむかい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 항 (Resisting, Withstanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sthaagey (wander), shassoo noi (confrontation, object, objection, resist, withstand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | motstand. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esistanceray resistência (abandon, drag, endurance, load, opposition party, resistor, strength, sturdiness, tolerance). (various references) rezistenţã (endurance, kick, lasting, opponency, opposition, proof, reliability, reluctance, stamina, stand, stoutness, strength, tolerance of, toughness), reostat (rheostat), putere (authority, backbone, capacity, degree, depth, energy, force, greatness, hold, in, jurisdiction, keenness, masterdom, mastery, measure, might, mightiness, nerve, pith, potency, power, puissance, punch, reign, right, rulership, sap, stamina, steam, strength, sturdiness, sway, vigor, vigorousness, vigour, vim), opoziţie (antagonism, antithesis, caveat, conflict, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, dead set, hostility, opponency, opposite, opposition, stand), împotrivire (repugnance, stand, stoppage, stopping). (various references) сопротивление (rebellion, resist). (various references) otpornost (hardiness), otpor (counteraction, counterwork, impedance, opposition, rebuff, set down, setdown, stand). (various references) resistencia (drag, drug resistance, endurance, endurance training, hardening, long distance, opposition, refractiveness, resilience, resiliency, resistance factor, resistance to ventilation, resistor, stand, strength, tolerance, toughness, underground). (various references) motstånd (antagonism, drag, opposition, resistor, stand), resistens (tolerance), motvärn. (various references) rezistans (resistor), tahammül (endurance, fortitude, hardihood, hardiness, patience, sufferance, tolerance), mukavemet, metanet (backbone, earthiness, fortitude, grit, resoluteness, solidity, steadfastness, steadiness, sturdiness), karşı koyma (counteraction, defiance, deprecation, despite, opposition), karşı gelme (contravention, infringement, kick, noncompliance, non-compliance, objection, protest), karşı çıkma (but, protesting, traverse), direnme (stand), direnç (capacitance, drag, reluctance, strength), dayanma gücü (bottom, stamina, staying power, strength, vitality), dayanma (endurance, lean, osculation, resting, stand, stay, sufferance, tolerance, wear), dayanıklılık (durability, endurance, fastness, fortitude, grit, hardihood, hardiness, hardness, indestructibility, lastingness, reliability, solidity, staying power, strength, sturdiness, substantiality, toughness, wear). (various references) оборона (advocacy, defence, defense, defensive), опір (antagonism, antiperistasis, opponency, opposition), протидія (antagonism, back-set, counteraction, countercheck, countermeasure, counterwork, opposition, reaction). (various references) sức bền, sự kháng cự, sự chống cự (opposition, withstanding), chọn phương pháp dễ nhất, độ chịu chọn con đường dễ nhất. (various references) gwrthsafiad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | refragatio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "resistance": resistances. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "resistance": magnetoresistance, nonresistance. (additional references) | |
Words containing "resistance": magnetoresistances, nonresistances. (additional references) | |
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"Resistance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rdesistance, reesistance, resentenced, resisitance, resistence, resystance, rezistance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "resistance" (pronounced ruzi"stuns or rēzi"stuns) |
| 7 | -z i" s t u n s | coexistence, existence. |
| 6 | -i" s t u n s | assistance, consistence, distance, insistence, persistence, subsistence. |
| 5 | -s t u n s | instance, substance. |
| 4 | -t u n s | acceptance, acquaintance, admittance, capacitance, competence, importance, impotence, inadvertence, incompetence, inductance, inheritance, omnipotence, pittance, reluctance, remittance, repentance, sentence. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, accordance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, imprudence, incidence, incoherence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, innocence, insignificance, insolence, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, remembrance, reminiscence, resemblance, residence, resilience, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
| 7 | -z i" s t u n s | coexistence, existence. |
| 6 | -i" s t u n s | assistance, consistence, distance, insistence, persistence, subsistence. |
| 5 | -s t u n s | instance, substance. |
| 4 | -t u n s | acceptance, acquaintance, admittance, capacitance, competence, importance, impotence, inadvertence, incompetence, inductance, inheritance, omnipotence, pittance, reluctance, remittance, repentance, sentence. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, accordance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, imprudence, incidence, incoherence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, innocence, insignificance, insolence, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, remembrance, reminiscence, resemblance, residence, resilience, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ancestries. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: arsenites, canisters, centiares, cineastes, cisternae, creasiest, creatines, increases, irateness, iterances, nectaries, reascents, resinates, sarcenets, scenarist, secretins, sectaries, sincerest, stearines. | |
-2 letters: arcsines, arenites, arsenics, arsenite, artiness, assenter, canister, casernes, cateress, centares, centesis, centiare, cerastes, ceratins, cineaste, cineasts, cisterna, cisterns, creatine, creatins, earnests, enticers, etesians, increase, increate, iterance, narcists, raciness, reascent, reenacts, resinate, retsinas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: centralises, insectaries, interspaces, linecasters, resistances, transiences. | |
+2 letters: craftinesses, creativeness, desecrations, intraspecies, reactiveness, transceivers, transiencies, transpierces, verticalness. | |
+3 letters: antirecession, astringencies, conservatives, conservatizes, containerises, containerless, disenchanters, eviscerations, franticnesses, heartsickness, inspectorates, intricateness, lucrativeness, necessitarian, neurasthenics, nonresistance, reescalations, sectarianizes, starchinesses, supercabinets, uncertainness. | |
+4 letters: antirecessions, articulateness, ascertainments, asthenospheric, attractiveness, bronchiectases, ceremonialists, charitableness, cholinesterase, conservatoires, conservatories, contrarinesses, coordinateness, creativenesses, creatureliness, credentialisms, creditableness, criticalnesses, decorativeness, endocarditises, intercessional, intransigences, letterspacings, necessitarians, nonresistances, pectinesterase, preanesthetics, reactivenesses, reconsolidates, recreationists, refractiveness, refractoriness, scratchinesses, translucencies, transparencies, verticalnesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 73 69 73 74 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ... .. ... - .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e s i s t a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0073 0069 0073 0074 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52718575858667806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Orthography 22. Bibliography |
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