Persisted vs Insisted - What's the difference?
persisted | insisted |
(persist)
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
(insist)
To hold up a claim emphatically.
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, title= To demand continually that something happen or be done.
To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
* 1709 , Venturus Mandey, Synopsis Mathematica Universalis
As verbs the difference between persisted and insisted
is that persisted is (persist) while insisted is (insist).persisted
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(head)persist
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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.
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
*insisted
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(head)Anagrams
*insist
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Alternative forms
* ensistVerb
(en verb)- (I am defending her; see a similar example in the context below for comparison.)
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist . Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.