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Persisted vs Continued - What's the difference?

persisted | continued |

As verbs the difference between persisted and continued

is that persisted is (persist) while continued is (continue).

As an adjective continued is

(dated) prolonged; unstopped.

persisted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (persist)

  • persist

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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
  • 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.
  • * 2009 , Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring
  • 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, remain

    Derived terms

    * persistence / persistency * persistent

    See also

    (cognate terms using -sist) * absist * assist * consist * desist * exist * insist * resist * subsist

    Anagrams

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    continued

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated) Prolonged; unstopped.
  • * 1797 , , J. S. Barr (editor and translator), Barr's Buffon: Buffon's Natural Hi?tory , page 20,
  • and for the pronunciation of F , a more continued ?ound is nece??ary than for that of any of the con?onants.
  • * 1819 [1736], (preface), The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature , page 93,
  • But when the exercise of the virtuous principle is more continued , oftener repeated, and more intense, as it must be in circumstances of danger, temptation, and difficulty of any kind and any degree, this tendency is increased proportionably, and a more confirmed habit is the consequence.
  • * 1820 , A. P. Wilson Philip, A Treatise on Fevers: Including the Various Species of Simple and Eruptive Fevers , page 57,
  • Instead of becoming more continued , intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable.
  • Uninterrupted.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (continue)
  • Anagrams

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