Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word RESIST

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Definitions of RESIST

1. A protective coating or covering.
2. (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
3. (transitive) To withstand the actions of.
4. (intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To be distasteful to.

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Examples of Using RESIST in a Sentence

• White dwarfs resist gravitational collapse primarily through electron degeneracy pressure, compared to main sequence stars, which resist collapse through thermal pressure.
• They have zero shear modulus, or, in simpler terms, are substances which cannot resist any shear force applied to them.
• A photoresist (also known simply as a resist) is a light-sensitive material used in several processes, such as photolithography and photoengraving, to form a patterned coating on a surface.
• Multidrug tolerance or antibiotic tolerance, the ability of a disease-causing microorganism to resist killing by antimicrobials.
• January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland.
• September 8 – Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow resist a large invasion by the Blue Horde, Lithuania and Ryazan, stopping their advance.
• Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor Heraclius, ill, infirm, and unpopular with the Eastern Orthodox Church, is unable to personally lead the Byzantine army to resist the Muslim conquest of the Levant.
• Neither the Senate nor the Gallo-Roman aristocracy decide to resist, and Nepos accepts the imperial purple.
• "the direction and implications of trends in technological change, globalization, labour markets, work organization, managerial practices and employment relations" to "the extent to which these trends are intimately related to changing patterns of inequality in modern societies and to the changing experiences of individuals and families", and " the ways in which workers challenge, resist and make their own contributions to the patterning of work and shaping of work institutions".
• Adaptive communications can mean any communications system, or portion thereof, that automatically uses feedback information obtained from the system itself or from the signals carried by the system to modify dynamically one or more of the system operational parameters to improve system performance or to resist degradation.
• In 1964, Paul Baran described, in a RAND Corporation report, a hypothetical military network having to resist a nuclear attack.
• Saturated and unsaturated compounds, a classification of compounds related to their ability to resist addition reactions.
• Originally there were two motivations: either to resist enemy efforts to jam the communications (anti-jam, or AJ), or to hide the fact that communication was even taking place, sometimes called low probability of intercept (LPI).
• Baduarius, son-in-law of the Byzantine emperor Justin II, is sent to Italy to resist the Lombard conquest.
• There are cypherpunk anonymous remailers, mixmaster anonymous remailers, and nym servers, among others, which differ in how they work, in the policies they adopt, and in the type of attack on the anonymity of e-mail they can (or are intended to) resist.
• The Habsburg monarchy entered the war in 1737 on the Russian side, but was forced to make peace with Ottomans at the separate Treaty of Belgrade, surrendering Northern Serbia, Northern Bosnia and Oltenia (the Banat of Craiova), and allowing the Ottomans to resist the Russian push toward Constantinople.
• Most of the remainder were killed in action, but it has been estimated that as many as 3,000 continued to resist within the various cave systems for many days afterwards until they eventually succumbed to their injuries or surrendered weeks later.
• You had actually to resist the whole environment, and to be yourself, you had to fight and to politicize yourself from the age of fifteen or sixteen.
• When the Argonauts were sailing past the Sirens, he was the only one who was unable resist the charm of their singing, swimming off to them.
• A resistance movement is an organized group of people that tries to resist the government or an occupying power, causing disruption and unrest in civil order and stability.

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