Lingering vs Persistent - What's the difference?
lingering | persistent |
An act of lingering or waiting.
* 2000 , David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (page 73)
That which lingers; a remnant.
* (Washington Irving)
Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
* {{quote-news
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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 lingering
is .As a noun lingering
is an act of lingering or waiting.As an adjective persistent is
obstinately refusing to give up or let go.lingering
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings .
- The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.
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 .