Found 4 items, similar to Resist.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: resist menolak
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: resist bangkang, melawan, memberontaki
English → English (WordNet) Definition: resist resist v 1: 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: 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. [1913 Webster] That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose. [1913 Webster] God resisteth the proud. --James iv. 6. [1913 Webster] Contrary to his high will Whom we resist. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction. [1913 Webster] 4. To be distasteful to. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Syn: To withstand; oppose; hinder; obstruct; counteract; check; thwart; baffle; disappoint. [1913 Webster] Resist \Re*sist"\, v. i. To make opposition. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [PJC]