Lexic.us

Definition of Resist

1. Verb. Elude, especially in a baffling way. "This behavior defies explanation"

2. Verb. Stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something.

3. Verb. Express opposition through action or words. "Dissent to the laws of the country"

4. Verb. Withstand the force of something. "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow"

5. Verb. Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ. "His body rejected the liver of the donor"

6. Verb. Refuse to comply. "They resist moving "

Definition of Resist

1. v. t. To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.

2. v. i. To make opposition.

3. 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.

4. n. Something that resists or prevents a certain action;

Definition of Resist

1. Verb. (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To withstand the actions of. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To oppose. ¹

4. Noun. A protective coating or covering. ''Oxford English Dictionary'', 2nd ed., 1989. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Resist

1. to strive against [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Resist

1. A substance used to prevent a colour or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the colour, etc, from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the colour so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibres. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Resist

resinizes resinless resinlike resino-electric resinoid resinoids resinols resinous resinously resinousness

resins resiny resipiscence resipiscences resiquimod resist (current term) resistance-inducing factor resistance-transfer factor resistance-transferring episomes resistance distance

resistance factor resistance factors resistance form resistance plasmids resistance pyrometer resistance thermometer resistance unit resistances resistant

Literary usage of Resist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1846)
"... therefore no marvel, if, where the flesh only bears sway (as it will in that man where no faith is to resist), if he sells his birthright, ..."

2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"He himself must do his utmost endeavour to resist and withstand the beginnings. Principiis obsta, " Give not water passage, no not a little," Ecclus. xxv. ..."

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