resistance

«resistance» in Mova's school dictionary: fighting against something or refusing to accept it — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (resistance, resistances)

meaning for a pupil

1) Resistance is fighting against something or refusing to accept it. tree →

2) In science, a force that slows down a moving thing, like air resistance or water resistance. tree →

3) In electricity, how much a material makes it hard for current to flow. tree →

4) The ability of the body to fight illness, or of a germ to survive medicine. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in science lessons about forces: air resistance slows a parachute, water resistance slows a swimmer; streamlined shapes have less resistance. In electricity: wires have resistance. In history: the Resistance fought against invaders. Phrase: "the path of least resistance" = the easiest way.

examples

• Air resistance slows the parachute down. tree →
• Fish have streamlined bodies to reduce water resistance. tree →
• Thin wires have more resistance. tree →
• The people put up resistance against the invaders. tree →
• Exercise builds your resistance to illness. tree →
• Some germs have resistance to antibiotics. tree →
• Friction and air resistance are forces. tree →
• At length, after a great show of resistance, he fell heavily to the ground. tree →

note

Mostly uncountable. Verb: resist; adjective: resistant (water-resistant watch). In science, resistance acts in the opposite direction to the movement.

In the corpora

• Using leftover antibiotics is unsafe, because they may be the wrong medicine or dose for a new illness and they help resistance spread.
• Air resistance is a kind of friction from the air; a parachute uses it to fall slowly.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «resistance» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.