different between persistent vs eager

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)

1. Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.

   She has had a persistent cough for weeks.
2. Insistently repetitive.

   There was a persistent knocking on the door.

3. Indefinitely continuous.

   There have been persistent rumours for years.

4. (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.

   Pine cones have persistent scales.
5. (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.

6. (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
7. (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)

1. 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

1. third-person plural present indicative of persister
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of persister

Latin

Verb

persistent

1. 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)

1. persistent

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?i??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i???/
• Rhymes: -i???(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English egre, eger, from Old French egre (French aigre), from Latin acer (“sharp, keen”); see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.

Alternative forms

• aigre (obsolete)
• eagre (obsolete)

Adjective

eager (comparative more eager, superlative most eager)

1. Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
   • 1887, John Keble, s:The Christian Year

     When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.

   • a crowd of eager and curious schoolboys
2. (computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.

   an eager algorithm

3. (dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.

   • gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself

4. (obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid.
5. (obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.

Synonyms

• keen
• raring
• fain (archaic)

Derived terms

• eager beaver
• eagerly
• eagerness

Translations

Etymology 2

See eagre.

Noun

eager (plural eagers)

1. Alternative form of eagre (tidal bore).

Further reading

• eager in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• eager in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• eager at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• aeger, agree, eagre, geare, æger