adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
water resistant
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Is this watch water resistant?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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Another parasitic protozoan is Myxobolus, this one causing fatal internal cysts and highly resistant to treatment.
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Decisions can be made quickly, and the system is highly resistant to hardware failure.
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The brain is highly resistant to damage.
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The problems seem especially daunting and highly resistant to correction, but that need not be the case.
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Second, the eggs are highly resistant to climatic extremes, and can survive for years on the ground.
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These spores are highly resistant tot extremes of heat and humidity and are very long-lived.
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They are therefore much less resistant than the techniques introduced in this chapter.
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It is less resistant than the technique shown in this chapter.
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But the cracks show that it is far less resistant to corrosion than previously thought.
more
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The slow twitch fibres react much more slowly and are more resistant to fatigue, producing greater endurance.
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But if the receptor lets in negative ions, the downstream neuron is made more resistant to firing.
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The narrow-leaved form is much more resistant and does not require a change of water.
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This brightens and hardens the surface of cutlery so it becomes more resistant to wear and it also removes minor scratches.
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Food products are more resistant to down turn than many other goods.
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But before jumping to that conclusion it is worth pondering whether the weed is more resistant to husbandry practice rather than the herbicide.
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Look for toothpaste with fluoride which will help to make your teeth more resistant to attack.
most
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The laws of logic, lying at the centre, are the most resistant of all.
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It is one of the most resistant aquarium plants and should become very popular.
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Women were most resistant to his strictures, claiming that when they served the goddess, they were never short of food.
very
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Our conditioning can make us very resistant to using disclosure.
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But when I have done this with Evan, he becomes very resistant , and I am not surprised.
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Most consultants are very resistant to anyone else being present during the examination.
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In cold temperatures the eggs are very resistant and can survive for over a year in soil.
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C is the most intellectual and best informed, less impulsive than A and B, but very resistant to change.
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The species type is very resistant to disease and is used extensively as a stock root for budding bush types.
■ NOUN
strain
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Long-term use has led to the growth of resistant strains .
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As drugs kill off the virus most susceptible to them, they leave behind the more resistant strains .
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The most effective destroyers of drugs are ordinary enzymes made in huge amounts by resistant strains .
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The risk of resistant strains of bacteria developing through complacent use of medicated feeds is high.
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More to the point, as resistant strains emerge, the greater becomes our need for new antibiotics to cure sick people.
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Whenever possible, patients who do not respond to antibiotics should be screened for resistant strains .
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The first resistant strain was found within a year of its use and soon spread.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Look for resistant varieties if you remain dissatisfied with your present vines.
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Plant tomato varieties resistant to nematodes.
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The cysts survive well in cold water and are even resistant to chlorination.
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The numbers of damaging insect species resistant to pesticide have multiplied from 160 to 450 since 1960.
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The realignment of these societies was necessarily slow, their central value-systems resistant to change.
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This is not always a fair criticism, as they themselves may have been extremely resistant to being told anything.
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We are exceedingly fortunate that many of our products and our customers are relatively recession resistant .