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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
resist
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
resist sb’s charm (=not allow yourself to be influenced by someone’s charm)
▪ People say that it was impossible to resist Burton’s charm.
resist the temptation to do sth
▪ If you feel hungry during the day, resist the temptation to eat chocolate.
resist/control an impulse (=not do something, even though you have an impulse to do it)
▪ Derek resisted the impulse to eat any more cake.
resist/fight/suppress an urge
▪ She had to resist a constant urge to look back over her shoulder.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fiercely
▪ Such clauses are often fiercely resisted by the buyer, but in most cases without reason.
▪ The Declaration was fiercely resisted by the minority.
▪ It wants to control, and fiercely resists its own capitulation.
▪ This policy is resisted fiercely by the rural community.
▪ It would, of course, be fiercely resisted because it gives back power to the people.
▪ The army fiercely resisted the move.
firmly
▪ Up until now most advanced snowboarders have firmly resisted anything except a non-release binding.
▪ Breakfast had been fruit and coffee; she'd firmly resisted the croissants with butter and apricot jam.
strongly
▪ Both these matters were deep in political controversy, the second in particular being strongly resisted by the police as well as by the Government.
▪ Tight controls were strongly resisted by developing countries.
▪ It is precisely in such circumstances that the imposition of obligations upon third parties is most strongly resisted.
▪ This has been strongly resisted by the police and there have been a series of clashes.
▪ There was also pressure for a whole ministry responsible for civil aviation, but this was strongly resisted by the Air Ministry.
▪ Ridgeway strongly resisted freeing the men, though he admitted that the evidence placed before the court had not demonstrated their guilt.
successfully
▪ She could not have resisted successfully had she tried, so she did not try.
▪ A proposal to combine Nuevo Leon and Coahuila for administrative purposes was successfully resisted by these states.
▪ They tend to be defiant toward society, and successfully resist therapy.
▪ Tom Margittai successfully resisted the temptation to take a major detour from his original dream.
vigorously
▪ I was sure that were such a scheme to be imposed, it would be vigorously resisted and criticised.
▪ This was hardly music to Britain's ears: the Labour government had vigorously resisted all such overtures since 1945.
▪ The Police Federation has made it clear that any proposals to reduce the age of consent would be vigorously resisted.
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ At the same time the executive resisted a renewed attempt by sympathisers for the affiliation of the Communist Party.
▪ Some do well in aquariums, while others seem to resist all attempts to keep them alive.
▪ Ollokot overtook them and joined a group of warriors in resisting Captain Benteen's attempt to outflank the fleeing families.
▪ But Parks again resisted attempts by the City Council to open an outside investigation of the department.
▪ Banks may resist the attempts at rationing.
▪ Augustine somehow resists every attempt to wipe it off the map.
▪ We shall, of course, resist any attempt to introduce such legislation by other means.
change
▪ Frequently staff will resist the change in ways which may be less dramatic than sabotage, but be equally effective.
▪ Still, some companies will resist these changes.
▪ Bear in mind that a block could indicate you are resisting a radical change of direction.
▪ Inevitably, employees would resist the change.
▪ But negative pride keeps us in a state of mind that resists change.
▪ Certainly unions resist changes that threaten their members' jobs-as any rational organization would.
▪ It is popular to assume that other people resist change but, of course, we are all potential resisters of change.
▪ Resisting change is as futile as resisting weather, and change is our weather now.
demand
▪ However, the government continued to resist demands for universal suffrage, preferring a power-sharing system.
▪ He could hardly resist the demands of Voute and Strauss.
▪ The economic pressure they could exert on the regimes that resist the masses' demand for democracy is enormous!
▪ They often found it difficult to resist these demands.
▪ He stoutly resisted these demands and campaigned for the retention of the tramways.
▪ Sometimes a puppy will aggressively resist our demands, or ignore us completely.
▪ Meanwhile suppliers are consolidating apace to give themselves the muscle to resist never-ending demands for lower prices.
effort
▪ The pictures resisted his efforts to shuffle them into chronological order.
▪ Bulger, however, adamantly resisted the efforts.
▪ The lid was heavy and at first resisted his efforts.
▪ Evan never resisted my efforts, nor will many of our children.
▪ She had a plump, pretty face, framed by dark curls that resisted every effort at restraint.
▪ Let us see why questions concerning the origin of language have so long resisted efforts to find clear answers.
▪ Farmers, especially in the more fertile areas have resisted efforts to place controls on their practices.
▪ He fights stubbornly, and has thus far resisted all our efforts to dislodge him.....
idea
▪ Bramwell resisted any such idea, even though his health was deteriorating.
▪ For years, manufacturers resisted the idea that laptops could be used for fun.
▪ The scientific establishment can resist a new idea with such complacent zeal that even Joshua with his trumpets would have no effect.
▪ Many people resist this idea, saying they would like to believe it, but doubt that humans could act differently.
▪ I urge the Government to continue to resist the idea of more regulations being attached to employees.
▪ I had been resisting the whole idea of focus groups-when you went out and talked to pickle eaters.
▪ The philosophers of pragmatism resisted the idea that experience could be frozen at a particular moment in time and analysed in chunks.
▪ And yet, even as we make the case for collaboration, we resist the idea of collective creativity.
impulse
▪ Now you try this exercise, and resist the impulse to give up.
▪ He resisted an impulse to stand on a chair.
▪ Bragg could not resist the impulse to stroll over.
▪ Jean was unable to resist the impulse to return her smile.
pressure
▪ Younger players in particular, as well as less established players, may find it particularly difficult to resist such pressures.
▪ The obvious question is how long the present authoritative regime will be able to resist the pressures.
▪ Many of us are too polite to resist their pressure and we end up sacrificing our time to their sales pitch.
▪ It was hard to resist that pressure.
▪ It is difficult but very important to resist pressure of this kind.
▪ We will insist on more effective control over Community spending and will resist pressure to extend Community competence to new areas.
▪ Kodak explains that it must be stiff to resist water pressure at depth.
temptation
▪ It might be out of bounds, but the temptation to take a slightly closer look was a temptation she could not resist.
▪ If such ideas were to spread, his own slaves might find them too great a temptation to resist.
▪ This temptation should therefore be resisted.
urge
▪ You resist the urge to test the weight on the lid again, because by now you've forgotten how it felt before.
▪ Corrigan resisted the urge to grab him by the arm and hold him.
▪ But she resisted the urge to turn and glance at him and kept her eyes fixed straight ahead.
▪ Will we as lawyers use our privileged positions to extend our influence, or resist the urge to make ourselves indispensable?
▪ Yanto resisted the urge to rush things.
▪ Bernice could hardly resist the urge to turn and run, but she supported Defries and retreated step by step.
▪ With difficulty Shiona resisted the urge to phone him up at home and demand an explanation.
▪ Creed resisted the urge to back off more.
will
▪ Others, however, do not have the will to resist.
▪ Then the fear of him that had been generated bred a will to resist.
▪ With a great effort of will, he'd resisted her pleas to go to her bedroom after everyone was asleep.
■ VERB
continue
▪ I urge the Government to continue to resist the idea of more regulations being attached to employees.
▪ Stephenson was in and out of hospitals repeatedly in 1995 because he continued to resist diagnosis and medication.
▪ The armed forces, however, remained essentially segregated and many whites continues to resist changes in race relations.
help
▪ This healthy, realistic fear helps the organization resist the temptation to take the easy way out of a problematic situation.
▪ Banks may keep surplus liquidity to help them resist a squeeze.
▪ Its hard wood helps it resist cold winters, and its thick-skinned grapes are almost impervious to rain, disease and insects.
try
▪ One of his victims who tried to resist was struck by an axe wielded by Kolben, and subsequently died.
▪ I resent this effect of the couscous, which is potentially terrifying, and I try to resist it.
▪ Muscles in her neck were trying to resist the pressure and that felt good too; he wanted it to take time.
▪ In other cases, they are killed if they try to resist or if their abductors become nervous.
▪ She tried to resist, to hold her breath.
▪ There may be those who try to resist this with the inevitable breakdown in social order as a result.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ By resisting the Mafia's attempts to control the region, he was putting his own life in danger.
▪ Congress continues to resist the anti-weapons bill.
▪ Test-tube studies show that the virus is able to resist most antibiotics.
▪ The unions have resisted attempts to change the pay structure.
▪ The university resisted pressure to close its art department.
▪ When security guards came to stop him, he did not resist.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although Artemis seems to have disliked all males, she particularly resisted heroes of the stamp of Hercules and Achilles.
▪ He resisted intense heat to rescue one person and try to get another out.
▪ Manu's friend resists and is savagely beaten up.
▪ Now you try this exercise, and resist the impulse to give up.
▪ She called it the science of shopping, the ability to resist the temptations of dazzling packaging.
▪ Still, some companies will resist these changes.
▪ The anticipated threat is a strain of staphylococcal bacteria able to resist all available antibiotics.
▪ The saint could not resist the appeal of that spotted belly, butter-soft, that pale fur so douce and plush.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resist

Resist \Re*sist"\ (r?-z?st"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Resisting.] [F. r['e]sister, L. resistere, pref. re- re- + sistere to stand, cause to stand, v. causative of stare to stand. See Stand.]

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

    That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist.
    --Milton.

  2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.

    God resisteth the proud.
    --James iv. 6.

    Contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
    --Milton.

  3. To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.

  4. To be distasteful to. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    Syn: To withstand; oppose; hinder; obstruct; counteract; check; thwart; baffle; disappoint.

Resist

Resist \Re*sist"\, v. i. To make opposition.
--Shak.

Resist

Resist \Re*sist"\, n.

  1. (Calico Printing) 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; -- also called reserve. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes.
    --F. C. Calvert.

  2. (Technology) Something that resists or prevents a certain action; specif.: A substance applied to a surface, as of metal, or of a silicon wafer, to prevent the action on it of acid, other chemical agents, or any other process such as irradiation or deposition, which would modify the surface if not protected. The resist is usually applied or in some way formed into a pattern so that the underlying surface may be modified in a complementary pattern.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
resist

late 14c., from Old French resister "hold out against" (14c.), from Latin resistere "to make a stand against, oppose; to stand back; withstand," from re- "against" (see re-) + sistere "take a stand, stand firm" (see assist). Related: Resisted; resisting.

Wiktionary
resist

n. A protective coating or covering. ''Oxford English Dictionary'', 2nd ed., 1989. vb. (context transitive English) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.

WordNet
resist

  1. v. elude, especially in a baffling way; "This behavior defies explanation" [syn: defy, refuse] [ant: lend oneself]

  2. stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something [syn: hold out, withstand, stand firm] [ant: surrender]

  3. express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country" [syn: protest, dissent]

  4. withstand the force of something; "The trees resisted her"; "stand the test of time"; "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow" [syn: stand, fend]

  5. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor" [syn: reject, refuse]

  6. refuse to comply [syn: balk, baulk, jib]

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Wikipedia
Resist

In semiconductor fabrication, a resist is a thin layer used to transfer a circuit pattern to the semiconductor substrate which it is deposited upon. A resist can be patterned via lithography to form a (sub)micrometer-scale, temporary mask that protects selected areas of the underlying substrate during subsequent processing steps. The material used to prepare said thin layer is typically a viscous solution. Resists are generally proprietary mixtures of a polymer or its precursor and other small molecules (e.g. photoacid generators) that have been specially formulated for a given lithography technology. Resists used during photolithography are called photoresists.

Resist (album)

Resist is the debut album by English electronica group Kosheen. The album was first released on June 25, 2001 in the Benelux countries as a Benelux Limited Edition by Moksha Records. The U.K. edition was then released on September 17 as a sixteen-track record by Sony BMG. The Japanese edition, released in 2003, was a Double-CD set containing fifteen B-sides and Remixes, plus the exclusive track "Tell Me".

Resist (disambiguation)

Resist may refer to:

  • Resist, a material or thin layer used in semiconductor fabrication
  • Resist (album), by English drum and bass trio Kosheen
  • RESIST (electoral list), which contested the 2003 Belgian general election
  • RESIST (non-profit), based in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
  • Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors, a set of rules for evaluating responses in cancer treatment.
  • "Resist", a song from the Rush album Test for Echo
RESIST (non-profit)

RESIST is a philanthropic non-profit organization based out of Somerville, Massachusetts. It has provided grants to grassroots activist organizations around the country since its inception in 1967 as a result of the anti-war proclamation “A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority”.

RESIST (electoral list)

RESIST is the name of an electoral list formed as a result of the coalition between the Marxist-Leninist Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB) and the Pan-Arabist Arab European League (AEL) for the Belgian federal election, 2003 in the Flemish Region.

RESIST was led by PTB lawyer Zohra Othman, herself an ethnic Arab of Moroccan extraction, and received 10,059 votes. Consequently, AEL distanced itself from PTB and formed a new party called the Moslim Democratische Partij.

Dyab Abou Jahjah's group had participated in Antwerp PTB lists for the 1999 election.

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Usage examples of "resist".

He resisted the easy allure of self-pity and stood rigid, almost at attention, until the feeling had passed.

Her silky hair would be surrounding her, an allure he would never be able to resist.

The unfeeling candidate for heaven was instructed, not only to resist the grosser allurements of the taste or smell, but even to shut his ears against the profane harmony of sounds, and to view with indifference the most finished productions of human art.

With the same firmness that he resisted the allurements of love, he sustained the hardships of war.

The skull resisted, but the anatomist increased his pressure slightly, and Molly felt and heard a fizzing sound as the bone rippled and parted to make way for the metal.

The government resolved wisely to permit the meeting to assemble, at the same time announcing that any attempt to cross the bridges in a formal procession would be resisted.

The aporia, though, is a textual knot which resists disentanglement, and several of the elements discussed above as contradictions, paradoxes, or shifts might equally be classified under the more general heading of aporia.

It was only by summoning up all the fierceness of his temper, all the impatience of his passions, and all the mistaken haughtiness and inflexibility of his purpose, that he could resist the artless enchantment.

Rimini, which aspired to universal freedom, was successfully resisted by the son of Constantine.

He represented to Theodoric, that an ambitious conqueror, who aspired to the dominion of the earth, could be resisted only by the firm and unanimous alliance of the powers whom he labored to oppress.

Shifting her weight to the balls of her feet and resisting the temptation to crack her knuckles, she waited for Barth to handle the situation.

It was inconvenient, unjust, and degrading to the character of the house, it was asserted, to descend into the politics of borough elections, and that applications like this ought to be resisted.

The security guard was a young woman and when Bret Cavanaugh smiled, his gray eyes glowed with a warm light that women had been known to have trouble resisting.

Not long afterwards, as Beleg had feared, the Orcs came across the Brithiach, and being resisted with all the force that he could muster by Handir of Brethil they passed south over the Crossings of Teiglin in search of plunder.

But nothing could check their fury: with loud cries and flashing weapons they fell upon the enemy, who burthened by their prey, and wearied by their very outrages, could ill resist men fighting to avenge their desolated hearths.