Persist

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪst

Full definition of persist

Verb

1. (intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
2. (intransitive) To repeat an utterance.
3. (intransitive) To continue to exist.
4. (computing, transitive) To cause to persist; make permanent.
• 2006, Marco Bellinaso, ASP.NET 2.0 Website ProgrammingThis 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 MonitoringWhile 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

• (go on stubbornly or resolutely) persevere, see also
• (continue to exist) last, remain

Derived terms

• persistence
• persistent

Anagrams

• priests, respits, sitreps, spriest, sprites, stirpes, stripes