Insisted vs Persistent - What's the difference?
insisted | persistent |
(insist)
To hold up a claim emphatically.
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To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
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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 insisted
is past tense of insist.As an adjective persistent is
obstinately refusing to give up or let go.insisted
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*insist
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* ensistVerb
(en verb)- (I am defending her; see a similar example in the context below for comparison.)
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- Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.
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* English reporting verbspersistent
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(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 .
