Grip vs Persistent - What's the difference?
grip | persistent |
To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
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To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
To trench; to drain.
A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
A handle or other place to grip.
A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
(film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
A lot of something.
: Influenza, flu.
(archaic) A small travelling-bag.
Assistance; help or encouragement.
A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
(slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
(figurative) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
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(dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
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Insistently repetitive.
Indefinitely continuous.
(botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
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(computing) About some data or data structures: existing after the execution of the program. Remaining in existence past the lifetime of the program that creates it.
(mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
(mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
As a verb grip
is to take hold of, particularly with the hand.As a noun grip
is a hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand or grip can be (dialectal) a small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain or grip can be (obsolete) the griffin.As an adjective persistent is
obstinately refusing to give up or let go.grip
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) grippan, from a (etyl) , whence English gripe. See also (l).Verb
(gripp)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. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
- By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls. It may have been that these fumes mounted to my head, and gave me courage not my own, but so it was that I lost something of the stifling fear that had gripped me, and could listen with more ease to what was going forward
Etymology 2
An amalgam of (etyl) (cognate with Swedish ''grepp ).Noun
(en noun)The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip . Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}
Etymology 3
From (etyl) grip, grippe, .Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- (Ray)
Derived terms
*Etymology 4
(etyl) (lena) grypus, gryphus.Anagrams
* ----persistent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She has had a persistent cough for weeks.
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- There was a persistent knocking on the door.
- There have been persistent rumours for years.
- Pine cones have persistent scales.
- The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania'' taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and ''Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes.
- Once written to a disk file the data becomes persistent and it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
- This way transient value becomes persistent .