noun
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A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
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A thing which resists.
adjective
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Which makes resistance or offers opposition.
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Which is not affected or overcome by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature, etc.
example
The infection is resistant to antibiotics.
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Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample.
Examples of resistant in a Sentence
The exposed strata are in large part resistant sandstones.
The substance is very resistant to the action of chemical reagents, to digestion, and possibly belongs to the glyco-proteids.
They're impact resistant, and won't shatter.
In 1953, he developed a method to make strains of wheat highly resistant to a single form of rust.
The red color is an added attraction, provoking pike into attacking, these poppers are however resistant to pike's teeth.
Made from frost resistant polypropylene for a long life.
However, these strains are not resistant to natural quinine.
The hides are then impregnated with Teflon to make them stain resistant.
The new drug will be indicated for highly pre-treated adults with virus resistant to multiple protease inhibitors.
Last year, glyphosate-resistant common ragweed was confirmed in Missouri, which was also resistant to 10 times the normal rate of application.
Available in single and multi-temperature versions, it uses environmentally friendly refrigerant HFC R404a and has a corrosion resistant frame.
Amber Solar Bird Bath This stunning new design Amber Bird Bath is made from weather resistant and hard-wearing poly resin.
The massive high density polyethylene container is durable, impact resistant, ultraviolet stabilized and corrosion free.
Where lightweight, corrosion resistant or complex shapes are required NP Aerospace is one of the largest thermosetting molding companies in Europe.
AltroProof Eco system can be used with vinyl floorcovering over water resistant leveling screeds.
This produces a soft sheen which is water resistant.
Comes with a Lifetime Guarantee as it's made from special formulation silicone rubber that is resistant to burning and melting.
These gravels are more resistant to scour and can maintain higher slope angles than the estuarine silts and clays.
Differentiation - bacterial spores are one of the most resistant life forms on earth.
However, use corrosion resistant fixings (Eg ss) and protect surfaces below during this period.
Vulnerable strains of bacterium were replaced by resistant strains.
Thus strain 630 has the genetic attributes of a fully virulent, highly transmissible, drug resistant strain.
Use of drugs (chemotherapy ), livestock resistant breeds or insecticides helps protect livestock and control animal trypanosomiasis.
After all, we do have strategies to face drug resistant tuberculosis, malaria and cancers.
Manufactured from heavy duty high density ultraviolet resistant plastic Features easy carry handles and antiperch domes.
When conditions of moisture, temperature, and food supply became unfavorable, many soil bacteria would form resistant spores.
They dry faster, are crease resistant and can withstand frequent washing.
These membranes are durably waterproof, highly breathable, long lasting and extremely cold and crease resistant.
This all steel fully welded design has tubular legs attached by tamper resistant bolts.
Nuclear research produces higher yielding, disease resistant crops for farmers.
Portions most liable to destruction, those parts between the tide marks, were found perfectly sound, and showed no signs of the ravages of marine organisms. Other valuable timber trees of the eastern portion of the continent are the blackbutt, tallow-wood, spotted gum, red gum, mahogany, and blue gum, eucalyptus; and the turpentine (Syncarpialaurifolia), which has proved to be more resistant to the attacks of teredo than any other timber and is largely used in wharf construction in infested waters.
The more resistant rocks, even though dissected by Tertiary erosion, retain in their summit tiplands an indication of the widespread peneplain of Cretaceous tinie, now standing at the altitude given to it by the Tertiary upwarping and post-Tertiary uplift; and the most resistant rocks surmount the Cretaceous peneplain as unconsumed monadnocks of the Mesozoic cycle.
Between the "Cotton Belt" and the Tennessee Valley is the mineral region, the "Old Land" area - "a region of resistant rocks" - whose soils, also derived from weathering in situ, are of varied fertility, the best coming from the granites, sandstones and limestones, the poorest from the gneisses, schists and slates.
In the second place, having declared the noumenal power, which causes phenomena, or conscious affections, to be unknowable, and having left anybody who pleased to make it a god and an object of religion, he proceeds to describe it as if it were known force, and known in two respects as persistent and as resistant force.
The lichen, however, is able to grow as the alga supplies organic food material and the fungus has developed a battery of acids (see below) which enable it actually to dissolve the most resistant rocks.
Aubrieta is an Alpine plant and you can plant it in the ground straight away as its very resistant to frost and cold weather.
This could mean a more virulent, or drug resistant strain which could put even more pressure on your immune system.
Meanwhile, there is a continuing flow of resistant cultivars going through trials.
This practice has resulted in the selection of resistant bacteria in these animals.
Resistant starch, however, has been reported to stimulate growth of the more anaerobic Clostridia species.
Antec 's IPM Program also includes ZP Rodent Control Pellets, an acute rodenticide which will kill any resistant rodent.
It is 300 meters resistant, sturdy uni directional, ratchet operated rotating bezel with screwed down crown and scratch resistant sapphire crystal.
The scratch resistant military green cabinet has a quality feel.
It is water resistant to 200 meters with screw down crown.
Comes with a Lifetime Guarantee as it 's made from special formulation silicone rubber that is resistant to burning and melting.
Where a surface is provided it should be smooth and skid resistant.
However, use corrosion resistant fixings (eg ss) and protect surfaces below during this period.
This leather trim has been treated to make it water repellent and stain resistant.
The secreting subpopulation of bacteria would need to be resistant to this toxin in order to survive.
The unique cell structure of Aircrete blocks makes them resistant to frost damage and sulfate attack.