Defense vs Resistance - What's the difference?
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(en noun) (US)
The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
# A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
# The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
An argument in support or justification of something.
Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
* Sir W. Temple
The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (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.
As nouns the difference between defense and resistance
is that defense is defence (action of defending or protecting from attack, danger or injury, or any means for that purpose) while resistance is resistance (all meanings).defense
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* defence (British)Noun
- Department of Defense
- Severe defenses against wearing any linen under a certain breadth.
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* See alsoAntonyms
* offenseDerived terms
* antidefense * ecodefense * Nuremberg defense * defensive * defensiveness * defensive scheme * defensive systemresistance
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* resistaunce (obsolete)Noun
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.}}