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Persistent vs Resident - What's the difference?

persistent | resident |

As an adjective persistent

is obstinately refusing to give up or let go.

As a noun resident is

resident.

As a verb resident is

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persistent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
    • She has had a persistent cough for weeks.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.}}
  • Insistently repetitive.
    • There was a persistent knocking on the door.
  • Indefinitely continuous.
    • There have been persistent rumours for years.
  • (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
    • 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.
  • (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.
    • 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 .
  • (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
  • (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.

    • Related terms

    * persist * persistence * persistency * persistently

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    resident

    English

    (wikipedia resident)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Person]], animal or plant [[live, living at a location or in an area.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
  • A graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty.
  • A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.

    • Derived terms

    * permanent resident

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
    • resident in the city or in the country
  • Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
    • He is our resident computer expert.
  • (obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • stable and resident like a rock
  • * Davenant
    • one there still resident as day and night

    Related terms

    * reside * residence * residency * residential

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