different between sloppy vs persistence

English

Etymology

slop +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sl?pi/
• Rhymes: -?pi

Adjective

sloppy (comparative sloppier, superlative sloppiest)

1. Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.

   The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!

2. Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.

   The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.

3. Imprecise or loose.

   A sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit!

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:careless

Derived terms

• sloppiness
• sloppily
• sloppy drunk
• sloppy joe
• sloppy seconds

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Further reading

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

Anagrams

• polyps

English

Etymology

From Middle French persistance

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??s?st(?)ns/

Noun

persistence (countable and uncountable, plural persistences)

1. The property of being persistent.

   You've got to admire his persistence. He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.

2. (computer science) Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.

   Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

3. (meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).

Synonyms

• persistency
• See also Thesaurus:obstinacy
• See also Thesaurus:perseverance

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