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Chafing vs Resistance - What's the difference?

chafing | resistance | Related terms |

Chafing is a related term of resistance.


As nouns the difference between chafing and resistance

is that chafing is the act by which something is chafed while resistance is resistance (all meanings).

As a verb chafing

is .

chafing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is chafed.
  • * 1853 , The Popular Educator: Volume 3 (page 325)
    • The constant and irresistible pressure of such a ponderous mass in motion must occasion certain rubbings and chafings against the rugged bottoms and projecting sides of the rocks amid which they move.

    resistance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * resistaunce (obsolete)

    Noun

  • The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}
  • (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
  • (physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
  • An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.

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