Subsists vs Persists - What's the difference?
subsists | persists |
(subsist)
To survive on a minimum of resources.
* Atterbury
(mostly, philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
* Alexander Pope
To continue; to retain a certain state.
* Milton
(persist)
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 subsists and persists
is that subsists is (subsist) while persists is (persist).subsists
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(en verb)- to subsist on other men's charity
- And makes what happiness we justly call, / Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
- Firm we subsist , yet possible to swerve.
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* *persists
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(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.