单词 | resister |
释义 | resistern. 1. a. A person who resists (something or someone).See also passive-resister n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opposition or resistance > that which or one who resists > one who resists withstandera1325 again-standera1425 repugnerc1449 resister1459 repugnant1625 1459 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1459 §38. m. 13 Yef eny man wold resiste or lette the seid erle to come to your high presence..than the said Lord Stanley and his felysship shuld lyve and dye with the said erle, ayenst his resistours. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xviii. 214 Quhen the feld wes clengit cleyne, Sa that na resisteris [1489 Adv. resistens] wes seyne. 1558 C. Goodman How Superior Powers 176 To counte your selues therin no rebells, but lawfull resisters. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue Heret. Affirm. sig. b ijv Disputation..with the unwillyng ones and resisters. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 835/1 [They] slew no small numbers of their resisters. a1656 J. Hales Several Tracts (1677) 29 To resist the Truth which is..believed by the resister himself, is a direct contradiction. 1710 A. B. Answer to Arguments Bp. Oxford's Speech 18 That they never consider'd the Matter at all, and therefore assisted these Resisters. 1765 J. Brown Christian Jrnl. 22 A despiteful quencher, and resister of the Spirit of grace. 1832 Examiner 97/1 The resisters of an exaction. 1873 S. Smiles Huguenots in France (1881) vi. 100 The resisters of the policy were in both cases Calvinists. 1944 Eng. Jrnl. 33 404/2 An incredible literary device through which the pure heroine invariably became the tempter and the bold male the passionate resister. 1969 D. W. Ewing Human Side of Planning xiii. 159 Planners could often sense who were the potential resisters of proposed changes. 2002 P. H. Lewis Guerrillas & Generals ii. 30 Comparing him [sc. Ché Guevara] to the patriot soldiers who fought for independence against Spain or to the more modern resisters of U.S. imperialism like Pancho Villa and Sandino. b. spec. A member of a resistance movement; a resistant. Sometimes with capital initial, esp. in relation to the French Resistance (see resistance n. 1b). ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > organized covert opposition > member of resister1943 resistant1944 1943 Times 9 Sept. 3/2 At the beginning there had appeared certain authoritarian tendencies among resisters, in reaction against the Third Republic. 1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 66/2 But all three of them, when they were drunk, believed themselves to have been the most stout-hearted Resisters, members of the Underground. 1966 M. R. D. Foot SOE in France vi. 129 In Greece and in Yugoslavia SOE sought to back any anti-German bodies of resisters. 2003 E. Qureshi & M. A. Sells New Crusades 39 Its [sc. the Iraqi military's] subsequent campaign to exterminate the resistance and punish the families of resisters..and entire regions in which such resistance occurred. 2. Something that offers resistance; a resisting object or force. In later use frequently with preceding noun (cf. resistance n. Compounds 5). Cf. resistor n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opposition or resistance > that which or one who resists resistant1548 resister1577 resistent1602 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > resistance > [noun] > non-conductor, resistor resister1760 resistance coil1843 rheostat1843 resistance box1867 resistance1878 resistor1905 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 91v The fruite is yellowe..: the kernelles, like the kernelles of a Peare, a great resister of poysons. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxvi. sig. Yy8v Philocleas shamefastnes, and humblenes, were as strong resisters, as choller, and disdaine. 1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 73 If a Moveable be struck violently against a hard resister. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ix. 28 If Warmth be the producer of Moisture, Cold must be the Resister. 1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 84 You see, that animal, vegetable, and metallic bodies..are easily changed into resisters or non-conductors. 1798 W. Drysdale Sacred Script. Theory of Earth 148 The noun anglicised ‘Arrarat’ is literally the primitive resister, diverter, or turner away, of the waters. 1861 M. Faraday Chem. Hist. Candle i. 3 A hard, strong, excellent wood, evidently fitted for good work as a resister of force. 1905 T. W. Sanders Bk. of Potato xxiv. 208 Earl of Chester—White round. Tubers, flattish round; heavy cropper and disease resister. 1990 A. Jerrehian Oriental Rug Primer (ed. 2) ix. 182 Stain resisters are now available which are suitable for Oriental rugs. 2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees v. 113 Pines are good fire-resisters—indeed are fire dependent: they cannot release or germinate their seeds without it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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