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driven
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??v?n/
- Rhymes: -?v?n
Verb
driven
- past participle of drive
Adjective
driven (comparative more driven, superlative most driven)
- Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.
- (of snow) Formed into snowdrifts by wind.
Derived terms
Anagrams
- Verdin, Virden, verdin
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch dr?van, from Proto-Germanic *dr?ban?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dri?v?n/
Verb
driven
- to drive, to push (forward)
- to drive (to do something)
- to do, to perform
- to float
Inflection
Descendants
- Dutch: drijven
- Afrikaans: dryf
- Papiamentu: drif
- Limburgish: drieve
Further reading
- “driven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “driven”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN
Middle English
Alternative forms
- drifen, drifven
Etymology
From Old English dr?fan, from Proto-West Germanic *dr?ban.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dri?v?n/
Verb
driven
- to drive
Conjugation
Descendants
- English: drive
- Scots: dryve
- Yola: dhreeve, dhrive, dreeve
References
- “dr?ven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Swedish
Etymology
past participle of driva.
Adjective
driven (not comparable)
- driven, operated
Declension
Anagrams
- drivne, indrev, vriden
Westrobothnian
Etymology
Past participle of driv.
Adjective
driven
- hardworking, diligent, fast, active
driven From the web:
- what driven means
- what drives the water cycle
- what drives plate tectonics
- what drives bitcoin price
- what drives evolution
- what drives you
- what drives ocean currents
persistent
English
Etymology
From Latin persist?ns, present participle of persist? (“to continue steadfastly”). Synchronically analyzable as persist +? -ent.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /p??s?st?nt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??s?st?nt/
- Hyphenation: per?sis?tent
Adjective
persistent (comparative more persistent, superlative most persistent)
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- She has had a persistent cough for weeks.
- Insistently repetitive.
- There was a persistent knocking on the door.
- Indefinitely continuous.
- There have been persistent rumours for years.
- (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- Pine cones have persistent scales.
- (computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
- (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- pinsetters, presentist, prettiness, serpentist
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin persist?ns.
Adjective
persistent (masculine and feminine plural persistents)
- persistent
Derived terms
- persistentment
Related terms
- persistència
- persistir
Further reading
- “persistent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “persistent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “persistent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “persistent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: persiste, persistes
Verb
persistent
- third-person plural present indicative of persister
- third-person plural present subjunctive of persister
Latin
Verb
persistent
- third-person plural future active indicative of persist?
Romanian
Etymology
From French persistant.
Adjective
persistent m or n (feminine singular persistent?, masculine plural persisten?i, feminine and neuter plural persistente)
- persistent
Declension
persistent From the web:
- what persistent mean
- what persistent patterns are found in personality
- what persistent headache meaning
- what's persistent depressive disorder
- what's persistent diarrhea
- what's persistent genital arousal disorder
- what persistent storage
- what's persistent infection
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