|
DEFIES |
Resists |
|
OPPOSES |
Resists |
|
RESISTER |
One who resists. |
|
PERSISTS |
Quietly resists, turns around, keeps going |
|
|
|
RESISTANT |
One who, or that which, resists. |
|
RESISTANCE |
A means or method of resisting; that which resists. |
|
BUMPER |
Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a
buffer. |
|
THEOMACHIST |
One who fights against the gods; one who resists God
of the divine will. |
|
|
|
FIXEDNESS |
The quality of a body which resists evaporation or
volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness
of gold. |
|
COUNTER BRACE |
A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain
of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to
receive. |
|
INSURGENT |
A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or
an established government; one who openly and actively resists the
execution of laws; a rebel. |
|
PROOF |
The quality or state of having been proved or tried;
firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to
force; impenetrability of physical bodies. |
|
STRUT |
In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or
pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of
Frame, and Roof. |
|
BREECHBLOCK |
The movable piece which closes the breech of a
breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the
discharge. It is withdrawn for the... |
|
DOVETAIL |
...tail
spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making
an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part... |
|
NEUROKERATIN |
...
tissue, as in the sheath of the axis cylinder of medullated nerve
fibers. Like keratin it resists the action of most chemical agents, and
by... |
|
ELECTRO-TINT |
...c
electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material
which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the
... |