Persist vs Sustain - What's the difference?
persist | sustain |
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
(music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
To maintain, or keep in existence.
To provide for or nourish.
To encourage (something ).
To experience or suffer (an injury, etc. ).
* Dryden
* Shakespeare
To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
* Dryden
As verbs the difference between persist and sustain
is that persist is to go on stubbornly or resolutely while sustain is to maintain, or keep in existence.As a noun sustain is
a mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.persist
English
Verb
(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.
Synonyms
* (go on stubbornly or resolutely) persevere, see also * (continue to exist) last, remainDerived terms
* persistence / persistency * persistentSee also
(cognate terms using -sist) * absist * assist * consist * desist * exist * insist * resist * subsistAnagrams
*sustain
English
Noun
(wikipedia sustain) (en noun)Verb
(en verb)- provisions to sustain an army
- Shall Turnus, then, such endless toil sustain ?
- You shall sustain more new disgraces.
- to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition
- A foundation sustains''' the superstructure; an animal '''sustains''' a load; a rope '''sustains a weight.
- (Shakespeare)
- his sons, who seek the tyrant to sustain