Persistent vs Conservative - What's the difference?
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Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
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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.
A person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.
(US, economics) A fiscal conservative
(US, politics) A political conservative
(US, social sciences) A social conservative.
Tending to resist change or innovation.
Based on pessimistic assumptions.
(US, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
(US, politics) Relating to the Republican Party, regardless of its conservatism.
(British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
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(physics, notcomp) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
As an adjective persistent
is obstinately refusing to give up or let go.As a proper noun conservative is
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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 .
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* traditionalist * right-wingerCoordinate terms
* moderate, liberal, progressive, libertarian, centristAdjective
(en adjective)- The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative .
- At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.
- We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative , party.