persistent : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: persistent	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for persistent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
persistent adj never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums" [syn: persistent, relentless, unrelenting] continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy Synonym(s): haunting, persistent retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes" Synonym(s): persistent, lasting Antonym(s): caducous, shed stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" Synonym(s): dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Persistent \Persist"ent\, a. [L. persistens, -entis, p. pr. of persistere. See {Persist}.] 1. Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose. 2. (Biol.) Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent* teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to {deciduous}, and {caducous}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
persistent {persistence}