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RESISTANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
Example:
despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("resistance" is a kind of...):
action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resistance"):
lockout (a management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms)
reaction (doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like)
anti-takeover defense (resistance to or defense against a hostile takeover)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The military action of resisting the enemy's advance
Example:
the enemy offered little resistance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("resistance" is a kind of...):
action; military action (a military engagement)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Derivation:
resist (stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Group action in opposition to those in power
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("resistance" is a kind of...):
group action (action taken by a group of people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resistance"):
confrontation; opposition (the act of hostile groups opposing each other)
sales resistance (resistance by potential customers to aggressive selling practices)
defiance (a defiant act)
contravention; dispute (coming into conflict with)
obstructionism (deliberate interference)
dissent; objection; protest (the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent)
rebellion (refusal to accept some authority or code or convention)
insubordination; rebelliousness (an insubordinate act)
Derivation:
resist (refuse to comply)
resistant (disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
Synonyms:
resistance; resistor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("resistance" is a kind of...):
electrical device (a device that produces or is powered by electricity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resistance"):
rheostat; variable resistor (resistor for regulating current)
potential divider; voltage divider (resistors connected in series across a voltage source; used to obtain a desired fraction of the voltage)
ballast; ballast resistor; barretter (a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations))
Holonyms ("resistance" is a part of...):
circuit; electric circuit; electrical circuit (an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow)
Sense 5
Meaning:
(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("resistance" is a kind of...):
involuntariness; unwillingness (the trait of being unwilling)
Domain category:
psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)
Derivation:
resistant (impervious to being affected)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("resistance" is a kind of...):
deadness; unresponsiveness (the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events)
Domain category:
bacteria; bacterium ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants)
Derivation:
resistant (relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection))
Sense 7
Meaning:
A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
Synonyms:
resistance; underground
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("resistance" is a kind of...):
revolutionary group (a political unit organized to promote revolution)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resistance"):
Maquis (the French underground that fought against the German occupation in World War II)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("resistance" is a kind of...):
mechanical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the equilibrium or motion of objects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resistance"):
friction; rubbing (the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another)
acoustic impedance; acoustic reactance; acoustic resistance (opposition to the flow of sound through a surface; acoustic resistance is the real component of acoustic impedance and acoustic reactance is the imaginary component)
drag; retarding force (the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid)
Sense 9
Meaning:
A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
Synonyms:
electric resistance; electrical resistance; impedance; ohmic resistance; resistance; resistivity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("resistance" is a kind of...):
electrical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon involving electricity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resistance"):
ohmage (the ohmic resistance of a conductor)
Sense 10
Meaning:
The capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents
Example:
these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("resistance" is a kind of...):
capability; capacity (the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment)
Sense 11
Meaning:
(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
Synonyms:
immunity; resistance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("resistance" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resistance"):
immunogenicity (the property of eliciting an immune response)
acquired immunity (immunity to a particular disease that is not innate but has been acquired during life; immunity can be acquired by the development of antibodies after an attack of an infectious disease or by a pregnant mother passing antibodies through the placenta to a fetus or by vaccination)
innate immunity; natural immunity (immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup)
Derivation:
resistant (relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection))
Context examples:
Elinor made no resistance that was not easily overcome.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
NAIP transcripts may be involved in chemotherapeutic resistance mechanisms.
(NAIP Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
In addition, this agent does not show cross-resistance with other anthracyclines.
(Nemorubicin, NCI Thesaurus)
Simultaneous resistance to a spectrum of unrelated drugs following exposure to a single agent.
(Multidrug Resistance Process, NCI Thesaurus)
The allele is thought to play a role in cellular defense and aberrations are thought to play a role in tumor multidrug resistance.
(ABCG2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A measurement of the resistance in the anticoagulation response to activated protein C in a biological specimen.
(Activated Protein C Resistance Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)
Both aberrant and constitutive activation of signal transduction molecules are found in about 50% of primary AML bone marrow samples, and seem to contribute to the increased proliferation and apoptosis resistance.
(Acute Myeloid Leukemia Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
This agent also blocks alpha-1-adrenergic receptors in peripheral vascular smooth muscle, which leads to vasodilatation and a subsequent decrease in peripheral vascular resistance.
(Alfuzosin, NCI Thesaurus)
Activation of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway is frequently associated with tumorigenesis and dysregulated PI3K/Akt signaling may contribute to tumor resistance to a variety of antineoplastic agents.
(Afuresertib, NCI Thesaurus)
