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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resistance/#m1)

2) In science, a force that slows down a moving thing, like air resistance or water resistance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resistance/#m2)

3) In electricity, how much a material makes it hard for current to flow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resistance/#m3)

4) The ability of the body to fight illness, or of a germ to survive medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resistance/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resistance/#x1)
- Fish have streamlined bodies to reduce water resistance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resistance/#x2)
- Thin wires have more resistance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resistance/#x3)
- The people put up resistance against the invaders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resistance/#x4)
- Exercise builds your resistance to illness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resistance/#x5)
- Some germs have resistance to antibiotics. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resistance/#x6)
- Friction and air resistance are forces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resistance/#x7)
- At length, after a great show of resistance, he fell heavily to the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resistance/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects/9/)
- [Air resistance is a kind of friction from the air; a parachute uses it to fall slowly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/51-forces/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «resistance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resistance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.