opposition vs resistance

opposition

noun
  • The action of opposing or of being in conflict. 

  • The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate. 

  • A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power. 

  • In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent. 

  • The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth. 

  • An opposite or contrasting position. 

  • A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king. 

resistance

noun
  • The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist. 

  • An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement. 

  • A force that tends to oppose motion. 

  • electrical resistance. 

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