Motivate vs Persist - What's the difference?
motivate | persist |
To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage.
* The weekly staff meeting was meant to motivate employees.
To animate; to propel; to cause to take action
* He was motivated purely by self-interest.
* Steam motivated pumps are used in manufacturing.
To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
To repeat an utterance.
To continue to exist.
(computing) To cause to persist; make permanent.
* 2006 , Marco Bellinaso, ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming
* 2009 , Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring
In lang=en terms the difference between motivate and persist
is that motivate is to animate; to propel; to cause to take action while persist is to continue to exist.As verbs the difference between motivate and persist
is that motivate is to provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage while persist is to go on stubbornly or resolutely.motivate
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* demotivatepersist
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(en verb)- This would not be saved after his session terminates because we don't have an actual user identity to allow us to persist the settings.
- While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, will persist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading.
