English to Persian Dictionary Online
Definition of "resistance"

resistance

Từ điển Collocation

resistance noun

¹ trying to stop sth

ADJ. considerable, great, stiff, strong, substantial | determined, fierce, heroic, serious, spirited, stubborn | effective | token | active | passive | collective, organized | widespread | armed, military | political | popular, public | guerrilla, peasant

VERB + RESISTANCE mount, offer, put up They mounted stiff resistance to the proposal. | encounter, meet (with), run into The advancing army met with little resistance. | break (down), crush, overcome

RESISTANCE + VERB stiffen | collapse, crumble

RESISTANCE + NOUN movement | fighter, forces, group, leader, worker

PREP. without ~ The attacks did not take place without resistance. | ~ against armed resistance against the Nazis | ~ to There was fierce resistance to the new laws.

PHRASES the line/path of least resistance (= the easiest way of doing sth), a pocket of resistance (= an area of resistance)

² to a disease/drugs

ADJ. high | low | disease | antibiotic, drug

VERB + RESISTANCE have | build up, develop You need to build up your resistance to colds. | lower

PREP. ~ to Aids lowers the body's resistance to infection.

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Từ điển WordNet

n.

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with; opposition

  he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens

  despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead

• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
• a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms; electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, resistivity, ohmic resistance
• the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

  the enemy offered little resistance

• (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease; immunity
• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force; underground
• the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
• (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current; resistor
• group action in opposition to those in power

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Microsoft Computer Dictionary

n. The ability to impede (resist) the flow of electric current. With the exception of superconductors, all substances have a greater or lesser degree of resistance. Substances with very low resistance, such as metals, conduct electricity well and are called conductors. Substances with very high resistance, such as glass and rubber, conduct electricity poorly and are called nonconductors or insulators.

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Bloomberg Financial Glossary

阻力价位阻力价位
An effective upper bound on prices achieved because of many willing sellers at that price level.

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English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

resistances
ant.: obedience