Procure vs Persist - What's the difference?
procure | persist |
To acquire or obtain.
* Milton
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To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
(criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.
(obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.
* Shakespeare
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
As verbs the difference between procure and persist
is that procure is while persist is to go on stubbornly or resolutely.procure
English
Verb
(procur)- if we procure not to ourselves more woe
- Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. How these were to be procured , no one was able to imagine.
- By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.
- Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.
- The famous Briton prince and faery knight, / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there longer sojourn and abode.
- What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?
Synonyms
* (acquire) obtain * (obtain a prostitute) buy, purchaseReferences
* ----persist
English
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.
