Uk English Meaning of resist
resist
Other Uk English words related to resist
Nearest Words of resist
- resistance => resistance
- resistance frame => Resistance frame
- resistance pyrometer => Resistance pyrometer
- resistance thermometer => Resistance thermometer
- resistance unit => Resistance unit
- resistant => resistant
- resisted => resisted
- resister => resistor
- resistful => resistant
- resistibility => resistibility
Definitions and Meaning of resist in English
resist (v)
elude, especially in a baffling way
stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something
express opposition through action or words
withstand the force of something
resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
refuse to comply
resist (v. t.)
To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
To be distasteful to.
resist (v. i.)
To make opposition.
resist (n.)
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.
Something that resists or prevents a certain action;
A substance applied to a surface, as of metal, to prevent the action on it of acid or other chemical agent.
FAQs About the word resist
resist
elude, especially in a baffling way, stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something, express opposition through action or words, withstand the force of s
fight,oppose,withstand,defy,repel,balk,battle,buck,challenge,check
Bow,to capitulate to,give in to,stoop,submit (to),succumb (to),surrender (to),yield to,knuckle under to (someone/something)
resipiscence => repentance, resiny => resinous, resinousness => resinousness, resinously => resinously, resinous => resinous,
