RESIST
\ɹɪsˈɪst], \ɹɪsˈɪst], \ɹ_ɪ_s_ˈɪ_s_t]\
Definitions of RESIST
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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elude, especially in a baffling way; "This behavior defies explanation"
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resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor"
By Princeton University
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Something that resists or prevents a certain action;
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A substance applied to a surface, as of metal, to prevent the action on it of acid or other chemical agent.
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To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
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To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
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To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
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To be distasteful to.
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To make opposition.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Something that resists or prevents a certain action;
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A substance applied to a surface, as of metal, to prevent the action on it of acid or other chemical agent.
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To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
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To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
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To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
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To be distasteful to.
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To make opposition.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
