Persistent vs Desire - What's the difference?
persistent | desire |
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.
To want; to wish for earnestly.
* Bible, Exodus xxxiv. 24
* Tennyson
To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:
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, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 To want emotionally or sexually.
To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
* Bible, 2 Kings iv. 28
* Shakespeare
To require; to demand; to claim.
* Spenser
To miss; to regret.
* Jeremy Taylor
(countable) Someone or something wished for.
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, title= (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
(uncountable) Motivation.
(uncountable) The feeling of desire.
As an adjective persistent
is obstinately refusing to give up or let go.As a verb desire is
.persistent
English
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 .
Anagrams
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English
Verb
(desir)- Neither shall any man desire thy land.
- Ye desire your child to live.
- And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.
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- Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?
- Desire him to go in; trouble him no more.
- A doleful case desires a doleful song.
- She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.
Noun
(en-noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}