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Meanings of defense mechanism in English
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mecanisme de defensa (Psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires.
Synonyms
Examples for "defence"
Examples for "defence"
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The treaty also made a future EU common defence subject to safeguards.
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National's defence spokesperson Mark Mitchell today said the government should remain independent.
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The region is extremely important from the country's defence point of view.
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Recent international events should remind us of the need for strong defence.
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Civil defence officials said there had been no immediate reports of damage.
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Long discussion of how the defense of Western Europe affects arms control.
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For example, the fighting season began without a new Afghan defense minister.
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There's no possible reason left for keeping information from your defense staff.
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But the new defense budget doesn't axe a single major weapons system.
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The U.S. defense chief later mentioned the issue at his news conference.
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I didn't know what I was doing; it was like a defense reaction.
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Our results support the involvement of VvWRKY33 in the defense reaction of grapevine against different pathogens.
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In many interactions of plants with pathogens, the primary host defense reaction is accompanied by plant cell death at the site of infection.
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Acute inflammation can elicit a defense reaction known as the acute-phase response (APR) that is crucial for reestablishing homeostasis in the host.
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Bresler refers to tic as a motor reaction to original mental shock, so that it is in fact a psychic defense reaction of expression.
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Some of these metabolites play important roles in the plant's defence mechanism.
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Did he avoid pining to be free as a kind of defence mechanism?
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Narcissism is fundamentally an evolved version of the splitting defence mechanism.
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I have this defence mechanism, this survival tactic of playing dumb.
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Sigmund Freud described it as a primitive defence mechanism used to resolve emotional conflict.
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Methyl jasmonate (MeJA) is a plant hormone important for the mediation of signals for developmental processes and defence reactions in higher plants.
Usage of defense mechanism in English
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It's a psychological defense mechanism, a means of coping with the unbearable.
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The defense mechanism wasn't a thinking being, capable of making judgment calls.
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Jeth rolled his eyes, sarcasm the only self- defense mechanism left to him.
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Objective: A defense mechanism is an automatic psychological process necessary for successful adaptation.
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He was irritating because that was what he used as a defense mechanism.
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Autophagy is an important host defense mechanism which targets invading pathogens.
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Lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity represents one defense mechanism that contributes to transplant rejection.
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Melanization is a universal defense mechanism of insects against microbial infection.
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That didn't stop her tourism gene from kicking in like a defense mechanism.
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The armadillo's smell was horrible-somedefense mechanism, Mallory guessed-butshe couldn't move away.
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Loss of appetite, in that case, is both a blessing and a self- defense mechanism.
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This is one burg where they build a defense mechanism at an early age.
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Normal mucociliary flow is a significant defense mechanism in the prevention of acute sinusitis.
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Wang could be sarcastic at times, but it might just be a defense mechanism.
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This has been ignored or explained away as a defense mechanism in previous investigations.
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It is a defense mechanism rationalizing forces ungoverned and ungovernable.