Pertain vs Persist - What's the difference?
pertain | persist |
To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
To repeat an utterance.
To continue to exist.
(computing) To cause to persist; make permanent.
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In intransitive terms the difference between pertain and persist
is that pertain is to relate, to refer, be relevant to while persist is to continue to exist.pertain
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Usage notes
* In all the above senses, pertain' is followed by '''to''' (or formerly by '''unto''', as in ''The King James Version of The Bible'' and in the plays of Shakespeare, although ' to is used in these works as well).Quotations
(relate ): * 1989 , Sort out any booklets or manuals that pertain to the heating system or any other fixture that you are leaving behind. — One's company , Underwood, Lynn, Southampton: Ashford.Synonyms
* appertainAntonyms
* be irrelevantAnagrams
* * *persist
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Verb
(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.