resist
part of speech
verb (resist, resists, resisted, resisting)
meaning for a pupil
1) To resist is to fight against something or refuse to accept it. tree →
2) To resist something tempting is to stop yourself from doing or having it. tree →
3) To resist something like water, heat or damage is not to be harmed by it. tree →
4) In science, to resist means to slow down or oppose the flow of something, like electricity or movement. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons, materials resist water (waterproof), heat or electric current; air resistance resists movement. In everyday life you try to resist eating all the chocolate. In stories and history, people resist an enemy or unfair laws. Phrases: resist the urge, can't resist, resist arrest, water-resistant, heat-resistant.
examples
- I couldn't resist eating another biscuit. tree →
- This watch can resist water up to 50 metres. tree →
- The villagers resisted the invaders for weeks. tree →
- The thief tried to resist arrest. tree →
- Rubber resists the flow of electricity. tree →
- She resisted the urge to laugh in assembly. tree →
- The children resisted going to bed early. tree →
- The offer was very tempting, and Stan could not resist it. tree →
note
Regular verb. Nouns: «resistance» (and «resistor», an electric part). Adjective: «resistant» (water-resistant). In science, air resistance is a force that slows falling or moving things.
In the corpora
- "Pacification" means violently crushing the people of a place until they stop resisting.
- Enslaved people resisted in many ways, from revolts on ships to running away and building free communities.
- The Mongols used Chinese and Persian engineers to besiege walled cities, and cities that resisted were often destroyed and many people died.
- Reinforced concrete has steel bars inside it so it can resist stretching as well as squashing.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «resist» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.