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- English Word Resist Definition To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
- English Word Resist Definition To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
- English Word Resist Definition To be distasteful to.
- English Word Resist Definition To make opposition.
- English Word Resist Definition 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.. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes.
- English Word Resistance Definition The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
- English Word Resistance Definition The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles.
- English Word Resistance Definition A means or method of resisting; that which resists.
- English Word Resistance Definition A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm.
- English Word Resistant Definition Making resistance; resisting.
- English Word Resistant Definition One who, or that which, resists.
- English Word Resisted Definition of Resist
- English Word Resister Definition One who resists.
- English Word Resistful Definition Making much resistance.
- English Word Resistibility Definition The quality of being resistible; resistibleness.
- English Word Resistibility Definition The quality of being resistant; resitstance.
- English Word Resistible Definition Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force.
- English Word Resisting Definition of Resist
- English Word Resisting Definition Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium.
- English Word Resistive Definition Serving to resist.
- English Word Resistless Definition Having no power to resist; making no opposition.
- English Word Resistless Definition Incapable of being resisted; irresistible.
- English Word Resoluble Definition Admitting of being resolved; resolvable; as, bodies resoluble by fire.
- English Word Resolute Definition Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady.
- English Word Resolute Definition Convinced; satisfied; sure.
- English Word Resolute Definition Resolving, or explaining; as, the Resolute Doctor Durand.
- English Word Resolute Definition One who is resolute; hence, a desperado.
- English Word Resolute Definition Redelivery; repayment.
- English Word Resolutely Definition In a resolute manner; with fixed purpose; boldly; firmly; steadily; with perseverance.
- English Word Resoluteness Definition The quality of being resolute.