SCM.Resistant.Weak: Resistant / Weak

re·sist·ant [ri-zis-tuhnt]

adjective

1. resisting

noun

2. a person or thing that resists.

Origin:

1590–1600; < MF resistant, prp. of resister to resist

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re·sist [ri-zist]

verb (used with object)

1. to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.

2. to withstand the action or effect of: to resist spoilage.

3. to refrain or abstain from, esp. with difficulty or reluctance: They couldn't resist the chocolates.

verb (used without object)

4. to make a stand or make efforts in opposition; act in opposition; offer resistance.

noun

5. a substance that prevents or inhibits some effect from taking place, as a coating on a surface of a metallic printing plate that prevents or inhibits corrosion of the metal by acid.

6. Textiles . a chemically inert substance used in resist printing.

Origin:

1325–75; ME resisten (v.) < L resistere to remain standing, equiv. to re- + sistere to cause to stand, akin to stāre to stand

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weak [week]

adjective, -er, -est.

1. not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.

2. lacking in bodily strength or healthy vigor, as from age or sickness; feeble; infirm: a weak old man; weak eyes.

3. not having much political strength, governing power, or authority: a weak nation; a weak ruler.

4. lacking in force, potency, or efficacy; impotent, ineffectual, or inadequate: weak sunlight; a weak wind.

5. lacking in rhetorical or creative force or effectiveness: a weak reply to the charges; one of the author's weakest novels.

6. lacking in logical or legal force or soundness: a weak argument.

7. deficient in mental power, intelligence, or judgment: a weak mind.

8. not having much moral strength or firmness, resolution, or force of character: to prove weak under temptation; weak compliance.

9. deficient in amount, volume, loudness, intensity, etc.; faint; slight: a weak current of electricity; a weak pulse.

10. deficient, lacking, or poor in something specified: a hand weak in trumps; I'm weak in spelling.

11. deficient in the essential or usual properties or ingredients: weak tea.

12. unstressed, as a syllable, vowel, or word.

13. (of Germanic verbs) inflected with suffixes, without inherited change of the root vowel, as English work, worked, or having a preterit ending in a dental, as English bring, brought.

14. (of Germanic nouns and adjectives) inflected with endings originally appropriate to stems terminating in -n, as the adjective alte in German der alte Mann (“the old man”).

15. (of wheat or flour) having a low gluten content or having a poor quality of gluten.

16. Photography . thin; not dense.

17. Commerce . characterized by a decline in prices: The market was weak in the morning but rallied in the afternoon.

Origin:

1250–1300; ME weik < ON veikr; c. OE wāc, D week, G weich; akin to OE wīcan to yield, give way, ON vīkja to move, turn, draw back, G weichen to yield

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