Resistance: alternatives and connections

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability.

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The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.

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Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadnes…

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The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.

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State; condition; position of affairs.

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Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.

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Act of confrontating.

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The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.

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The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.

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To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wra…

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To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

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A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.

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The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.

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The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.

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The act or the policy of obstructing progress.

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The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.

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To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.

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Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.

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The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and…

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A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be vari…

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of Rub

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A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry s…

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A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry s…

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To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

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To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

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Making resistance; resisting.

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Making resistance; resisting.

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The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.

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The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.

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The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.

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Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of t…

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A measure of opposition to the flow of alternating current

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The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.

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The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.

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