persist
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French persister (Modern French persister), from Latin persistere, from per- + sistere (“to stand”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɚˈsɪst/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəˈsɪst/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪst
- Hyphenation: per‧sist
Verb edit
persist (third-person singular simple present persists, present participle persisting, simple past and past participle persisted)
- (intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
- (intransitive) To repeat an utterance.
- (intransitive) To continue to exist.
- (intransitive, copulative, obsolete) To continue to be; to remain.
- (computing, transitive) To cause to persist; make permanent.
- 2006, Marco Bellinaso, ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming:
- 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.
- 2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring:
- 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.
Synonyms edit
- (go on stubbornly or resolutely): persevere; See also Thesaurus:persevere
- (continue to exist): last, remain; See also Thesaurus:persist
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
go on stubbornly or resolutely
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continue to exist
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See also edit
cognate terms using -sist