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Definition: PERSISTED |
PERSISTEDImperative & past participle1. Of Persist |
Date "PERSISTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Crosswords: PERSISTED |
| English words defined with "PERSISTED": hang in, hang on, hold on ♦ persevere, persist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PERSISTED": Britomartis ♦ Choreu'tæ ♦ FRANKALMOIGNE ♦ rule of 70 ♦ Sparganosis ♦ ZANZIBARI. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PERSISTED": Persist. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | The mister resisted, the sister persisted, (Clementine; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His client, whom in his character of counsel he persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been seen to scale the wall or break off the branch. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This discovery may explain why some of these apparently harmful mechanisms have persisted in evolution. (references) | |
If the disease has persisted long enough, however, it may irreversibly damage the structure of the joints. (references) | ||
The symptoms must have persisted or recurred during six or more consecutive months of illness and must not have predated the fatigue. (references) | ||
Children | Bulgaria | Societal discrimination against persons with disabilities persisted. (references) |
Turkey | She noted that the social attitudes that violence towards children is the parents' right persisted. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Policies and public attitudes prevalent during the Communist era, which separated mentally and physically disabled persons, including very young children from the rest of society, have persisted. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Switzerland | Government representatives claimed that they carried out an ongoing review of the situation in Sri Lanka and that refugees would be repatriated to Colombo, but mandated that no returns would take place in the eastern and northern parts of the country, where conflicts persisted. (references) |
Discrimination | Macedonia | This principle will be applied in particular with respect to employment in public administration and public enterprises, and access to public financing for business development." However, societal discrimination against ethnic minorities persisted, and the protection of women's rights remained a problem. (references) |
Portugal | The Constitution forbids discrimination based on ancestry, sex, language, origin, religion, political or ideological convictions, education, economic situation, or social condition; however, some discrimination against women and ethnic minorities persisted. (references) | |
Economic History | Thailand | In recent years Thailand has developed a much more stable and transparent political system, although in the past there were frequent changes in government, often by military intervention . The last coup was in 1991, followed in 1992 by political unrest and a confrontation in the streets of Bangkok in which over fifty civilian demonstrators were killed . The "May 1992 events" were a real shock to the Thai political system and stimulated a remarkable democratic recovery . Since 1992, the military has not interfered in the operation of the civilian government, and this appears likely to remain the case for the foreseeable future . There have been four successful elections (1992, 1995, 1996, and 2001), as well as a change of government in 1997 and 2001 . A non-partisan assembly rewrote the nation's constitution, which was put into force in October 1997 . One of the main reforms of the new constitution is the establishment of three independent agencies: the Election Commission, the National Counter Corruption Commission, and the Constitutional Court . Each of these new bodies is expected to play a key role in screening qualified candidates and thereby reducing vote-buying by candidates for the national parliament . Vote-buying persisted as a problem during the January 2001 election, however. (references) |
Egypt | The banking system remained short of dollars and an informal rationing system persisted. (references) | |
Indonesia | Violence swept throughout Indonesia in the aftermath of the October 1 events, and unsettled conditions persisted through 1966. Rightist gangs killed tens of thousands of alleged communists in rural areas. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | Credible reports persisted of paramilitary installations and roadblocks near military bases; of contacts between paramilitary and military members; of paramilitary roadblocks unchallenged by military forces; and of military failure to respond to warnings of impending paramilitary massacres or selective killings. (references) |
Poland | For example, some nongovernmental entities persisted in asking for such information; violators are prosecuted; if convicted they are subject to imprisonment for up to 3 years. (references) | |
Cuba | The Government claims that prisoners have rights, such as family visitation, adequate nutrition, pay for work, the right to request parole, and the right to petition the prison director; however, police and prison officials often denied these rights in practice, and beat, neglected, isolated, and denied medical treatment to detainees and prisoners, including those convicted of political crimes or those who persisted in expressing their views. (references) | |
Minorities | Congo | The Fundamental Act prohibits discrimination based on ethnicity; however, the Government did not enforce this prohibition effectively, and in practice, ethnic discrimination persisted. (references) |
Poland | Although surveys have shown a continuing decline in anti-Semitic sentiment, anti-Semitic feelings persisted among certain sectors of the population, occasionally manifesting themselves in acts of vandalism and physical or verbal abuse. (references) | |
Lithuania | A certain level of anti-Semitic sentiment persisted in the country, reflected in sporadic public incidents of anti-Semitism and the sensationalist exploitation of anti-Semitism for commercial gain. (references) | |
Political Economy | Venezuela | Torture and abuse of detainees persisted, and the Government failed to punish police and security officers guilty of abuses. (references) |
Poland | Some employers violated worker rights provided for by law, particularly in the growing private sector, and antiunion discrimination persisted. (references) | |
Poland | There were incidents of desecration of graves in both Jewish and Catholic cemeteries, and anti-Semitic sentiments persisted. (references) | |
Political Rights | Jamaica | During the 1997 general election campaign, both international and local observer groups concluded that, although the process was significantly less violent than recent election campaigns, problems persisted in the garrison communities. (references) |
Nigeria | Complaints about the Constitution persisted, and there were continued calls for a national conference to reexamine the constitutional and political structure of the country. (references) | |
Azerbaijan | The practice of "family voting," where men cast the votes of their wives and other female members of their families, persisted. (references) | |
Women | Spain | Although prohibited by law, discrimination in the workplace and in hiring practices persisted. (references) |
Lithuania | Significant inequalities in society based on gender continued, and conservative views about the role of women persisted. (references) | |
Turkey | The problem of suicide among young girls forced into marriage persisted and was prevalent particularly in the southeast, where suicides have risen by more than 50 percent since 1993 and where 80 percent of suicide victims are women. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Mauritania | There has been no open trading in slaves for many years; however, there continued to be unconfirmed reports that slavery in the form of forced and involuntary servitude persisted in some isolated areas. (references) |
Spain | It was more difficult to enforce the law on small farms and in family-owned businesses, where some child labor persisted. (references) | |
Cyprus | A similar pattern existed in the recruitment and hiring of Eastern European women to work in the Turkish Cypriot community, and reports persisted regarding the coercion of nightclub workers, such as the confiscation of victims' passports. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ZANZIBARI, n. An inhabitant of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, off the eastern coast of Africa. The Zanzibaris, a warlike people, are best known in this country through a threatening diplomatic incident that occurred a few years ago. The American consul at the capital occupied a dwelling that faced the sea, with a sandy beach between. Greatly to the scandal of this official's family, and against repeated remonstrances of the official himself, the people of the city persisted in using the beach for bathing. One day a woman came down to the edge of the water and was stooping to remove her attire (a pair of sandals) when the consul, incensed beyond restraint, fired a charge of bird-shot into the most conspicuous part of her person. Unfortunately for the existing entente cordiale between two great nations, she was the Sultana. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PERSISTED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 80.50% of the time. "PERSISTED" is used about 640 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 80.5% | 515 | 11,788 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 19.34% | 124 | 28,785 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.16% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 640 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PERSISTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 坚持 (insist, Insisted, insistence, insisting, Persevere, Persevered, Persevering, Persist, persistence, Persistency, persistent, Persisting). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | persistées, persistée, persistâmes, persista. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | beharrten, beharrte (persevered). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 지속하는. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ersistedpay framhärdade. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"PERSISTED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Parsystec, persister, priested. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PERSISTED" (pronounced persi"stud) |
| 6 | -s i" s t u d | assisted, consisted, insisted, unassisted. |
| 5 | -i" s t u d | coexisted, delisted, enlisted, existed, fisted, listed, preexisted, resisted, twisted, unlisted. |
| 4 | -s t u d | accosted, adjusted, arrested, attested, bested, blacklisted, blasted, boasted, boosted, breasted, busted, chested, coasted, congested, contested, contrasted, costed, crested, crusted, detested, digested, disgusted, disinterested, distrusted, divested, dusted, encrusted, entrusted, exhausted, fasted, feasted, flabbergasted, foisted, forecasted, forested, frosted, guested, gusted, harvested, hoisted, hosted, infested, ingested, interested, invested, lambasted, lasted, lusted, maladjusted, manifested, masted, mistrusted, molested, nested, ousted, outlasted, pasted, posted, protested, readjusted, rearrested, reinvested, requested, rested, retested, roasted, roosted, rusted, sandblasted, suggested, tasted, tested, tightfisted, toasted, trusted, unadjusted, uncontested, uninterested, unmolested, untested, vested, wasted, worsted, wrested. |
| 3 | -t u d | abated, abbreviated, abdicated, abducted, abetted, aborted, abrogated, abstracted, abutted, accelerated, accented, accentuated, accepted, acclimated, accommodated, accounted, accredited, accumulated, acquainted, acquitted, acted, activated, adapted, addicted, adjudicated, admitted, adopted, adulterated, advocated, affected, affiliated, afflicted, affronted, aggravated, aggregated, agitated, airlifted, alerted, alienated, alleviated, allocated, allotted, alternated, amalgamated, ameliorated, amounted, amputated, angulated, animated, annihilated, annotated, anted, anticipated, antiquated, appointed, appreciated, appropriated, approximated, arbitrated, articulated, aspirated, assassinated, assaulted, asserted, assimilated, associated, assorted, attempted, attenuated, attracted, attributed, audited, augmented, authenticated, automated, averted, awaited, backdated, baited, bankrupted, bated, batted, belated, belted, benefited, benefitted, benighted, berated, bifurcated, bigoted, blanketed, blighted, bloated, blunted, blurted, boated, bolted, booted, boycotted, budgeted, caffeinated, calculated, calibrated, capitulated, captivated, carbonated, carbureted, carotid, carpeted, carted, castigated, castrated, catapulted, celebrated, cemented, chanted, charted, chatted, cheated, chlorinated, circuited, circulated, circumvented, cited, closeted, clotted, coated, collaborated, collected, comforted, commemorated, commented, committed, communicated, commuted, compacted, compensated, competed, complemented, completed, complicated, complimented, computed, conceited, concentrated, concerted, concocted, conducted, confiscated, conflicted, confronted, congratulated, congregated, conjugated, connected, conscripted, consecrated, consented, consolidated, constipated, constituted, constricted, constructed, consulted, consummated, contacted, contaminated, contemplated, contented, contorted, contracted, contradicted, contributed, converted, convicted, convoluted, cooperated, coordinated, copyrighted, corrected, correlated, corroborated, corrugated, corrupted, counted, counteracted, counterfeited, courted, coveted, crafted, created, credited, cremated, crenelated, culminated, cultivated, darted, dated, daunted, deactivated, debated, debilitated, decaffeinated, decapitated, decelerated, decimated, decontaminated, decorated, dedicated, deducted, defaulted, defeated, defected, deflated, deflected, degenerated, dehydrated, dejected, delegated, deleted, deliberated, delighted, delineated, demented, demonstrated, demoted, denigrated, denominated, denoted, dented, departed, depicted, depleted, deported, deposited, depreciated, deregulated, desecrated, desegregated, deserted, designated, destructed, detected, deteriorated, detonated, detracted, devaluated, devastated, deviated, devoted, dictated, differentiated, dilapidated, dilated, diluted, directed, disaffected, disappointed, disassociated, disconnected, discontented, discounted, discredited, discriminated, disenchanted, disintegrated, disinvited, disjointed, dislocated, disoriented, dispirited, disputed, disrespected, disrupted, dissected, disseminated, dissented, dissipated, distorted, distracted, distributed, diverted, documented, domesticated, dominated, donated, dotted, doubted, drafted, drifted, duplicated, edited, educated, effected, ejected, elaborated, elated, elected, electrocuted, elevated, elicited, eliminated, elongated, elucidated, emaciated, emanated, emancipated, emasculated, emigrated, emitted, emulated, enacted, encapsulated, enchanted, encrypted, enumerated, enunciated, equated, eradicated, erected, erupted, escalated, escorted, estimated, evacuated, evaluated, evaporated, evicted, eviscerated, exacerbated, exacted, exaggerated, exalted, exasperated, excavated, excepted, excerpted, excited, excommunicated, excoriated, executed, exempted, exerted, exhibited, exhilarated, exhorted, exited, exonerated, expected, expedited, experimented, exploited, exported, expropriated, exterminated, extorted, extracted, extradited, extrapolated, extricated, extroverted, exulted, fabricated, faceted, facilitated, fainted, fainthearted, farsighted, fascinated, fated, faulted, federated, fermented, ferreted, feted, fetid, filleted, fingerprinted, fitted, fixated, flagellated, flaunted, flirted, floated, flouted, fluctuated, fomented, footed, footnoted, forfeited, formulated, fragmented, frequented, fretted, fronted, frustrated, gated, generated, germinated, gifted, glaciated, gloated, glutted, graduated, grafted, granted, grated, gravitated, greeted, grunted, gutted, gyrated, halfhearted, hallucinated, halogenated, halted, handcrafted, hated, hearted, heated, helmeted, hesitated, highlighted, hinted, hooted, humiliated, hunted, hydrated, hydrogenated, hyphenated, ignited, illuminated, illustrated, imitated, immigrated, impacted, imparted, impersonated, implanted, implemented, implicated, imported, impregnated, imprinted, imputed, inactivated, inaugurated, incapacitated, incarcerated, incinerated, incited, incorporated, inculcated, indebted, indicated, indicted, indited, indoctrinated, inducted, infatuated, infected, infiltrated, inflated, inflected, inflicted, infuriated, inhabited, inherited, inhibited, initiated, injected, innovated, inoculated, inserted, insinuated, inspected, instigated, instituted, instructed, insulated, insulted, integrated, interacted, intercepted, interconnected, interdicted, interjected, interpolated, interpreted, interrelated, interrogated, interrupted, intersected, intimated, intimidated, intoxicated, introverted, inundated, invalidated, invented, inverted, investigated, invigorated, invited, irradiated, irrigated, irritated, isolated, jacketed, jetted, jilted, jointed, jolted, jotted, knighted, knitted, knotted, lamented, laminated, legislated, levitated, liberated, lifted, lighted, lighthearted, limited, liquidated, litigated, located, looted, lubricated, malted, maltreated, mandated, manipulated, marinated, marketed, masturbated, mated, mediated, medicated, melted, merited, meted, migrated, minted, misallocated, misappropriated, miscalculated, misdirected, misinterpreted, misquoted, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistreated, mitigated, moderated, modulated, motivated, mounted, multifaceted, mutated, muted, mutilated, narrated, nauseated, navigated, nearsighted, necessitated, negated, neglected, negotiated, netted, nominated, nonregulated, noted, objected, obligated, obliterated, obstructed, officiated, omitted, operated, opinionated, opted, orbited, orchestrated, orientated, oriented, originated, ornamented, outdated, outed, outfitted, outvoted, overacted, overestimated, overexcited, overheated, overpopulated, overrated, overreacted, overregulated, overrepresented, overstated, overweighted, oxygenated, painted, panted, parachuted, parted, participated, patented, patted, pelleted, pelted, penetrated, perfected, perforated, permeated, permitted, perpetrated, perpetuated, persecuted, perverted, petted, picketed, piloted, pinpointed, pirated, pitted, pivoted, planted, plated, plotted, plummeted, pocketed, pointed, pollinated, polluted, pontificated, populated, ported, posited, potted, pouted, precipitated, predated, predicated, predicted, predominated, preempted, prefabricated, premeditated, presented, prevented, printed, profited, prognosticated, prohibited, projected, proliferated, promoted, prompted, promulgated, propagated, prorated, prosecuted, protected, protracted, punctuated, purported, putted, quieted, quilted, quoted, radiated, rafted, ranted, ratcheted, rated, reacted, reactivated, readmitted, reallocated, reappointed, reasserted, rebated, rebutted, recalculated, recanted, reciprocated, recited, recollected, reconnected, reconstituted, reconstructed, recounted, recreated, recruited, redacted, redecorated, redirected, redistributed, redrafted, reelected, reenacted, reevaluated, refitted, reflected, reformulated, refrigerated, refuted, regenerated, regimented, regretted, regulated, rehabilitated, reignited, reincarnated, reinstated, reinstituted, reintegrated, reinterpreted, reinvented, reinvigorated, reinvited, reiterated, rejected, rejuvenated, related, relegated, relented, relocated, remarketed, remitted, renegotiated, renominated, renovated, rented, repainted, repatriated, repeated, repented, replanted, replicated, reported, represented, reprinted, repudiated, reputed, rerouted, resented, resonated, resorted, respected, restarted, restated, restricted, resubmitted, resulted, resurrected, resuscitated, retaliated, retorted, retracted, retreated, retrofitted, reunited, reverberated, reverted, revisited, revolted, righted, rioted, riveted, rocketed, rooted, rotated, rotted, ruminated, rutted, sainted, salivated, salted, saluted, sated, saturated, scapegoated, scented, scouted, scripted, sculpted, seated, secreted, sedated, segmented, segregated, selected, separated, serrated, shafted, shifted, shorted, shortsighted, shouted, shunted, sifted, sighted, silhouetted, simulated, sited, situated, skated, skirted, skyrocketed, slanted, slated, slighted, slotted, snorted, solicited, sophisticated, sorted, speculated, spirited, sported, spotlighted, spotted, spouted, sprinted, sprouted, spurted, squirted, stagnated, stalemated, started, stated, stilted, stimulated, stipulated, stunted, subcontracted, subjected, subjugated, submitted, subordinated, substantiated, substituted, subtracted, subverted, suffocated, suited, superheated, supplanted, supplemented, supported, surmounted, suspected, swatted, sweated, syncopated, syndicated, tabulated, tainted, talented, targeted, taunted, tempted, terminated, throated, thwarted, ticketed, tilted, tinted, titillated, tolerated, tormented, toted, touted, transacted, transected, translated, transmitted, transplanted, transported, treated, trotted, trumpeted, truncated, tufted, unabated, unaccounted, unaccredited, unadulterated, unaffected, unaffiliated, unallocated, unanticipated, unappreciated, unaudited, unbolted, uncharted, uncoated, uncollected, uncommitted, uncompensated, uncompleted, uncomplicated, unconnected, unconsolidated, uncontaminated, uncontradicted, unconverted, uncoordinated, uncorrected, uncorroborated, uncounted, undated, undaunted, undefeated, undercounted, underestimated, underrated, underreported, underrepresented, understated, undetected, undifferentiated, undiluted, undisputed, undistributed, undocumented, undoubted, unedited, uneducated, unelected, unexpected, unexploited, unincorporated, unindicted, uninfected, uninhabited, uninhibited, uninitiated, uninterrupted, uninvited, United, unlimited, unmitigated, unobstructed, unpainted, unprecedented, unprotected, unrated, unreconstructed, unregulated, unrelated, unreported, unrepresented, unrequited, unrestricted, unsaturated, unscripted, unseated, unsolicited, unsophisticated, unstated, unsubstantiated, unsuited, unsupported, unsuspected, untainted, untreated, unwanted, unwarranted, updated, uplifted, uprooted, vacated, vaccinated, vacillated, validated, vatted, vaulted, vaunted, venerated, vented, ventilated, vetted, vindicated, violated, visited, voted, wafted, waited, wanted, warranted, weighted, whetted, whited, wholehearted, wilted, witted. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: despiser, despites, diesters, disperse, editress, preedits, presides, priested, resisted, respited, respites, sidestep, sistered. | |
-2 letters: depress, deserts, desires, despise, despite, dessert, diester, dieters, dissert, esprits, persist, pesters, pestier, preedit, presets, preside, pressed, priests, prissed, reedits, resides, resited, resites, respite, speired, spiders, spiered, spirted, spriest, sprites, stirpes, strides, striped, stripes, tressed. | |
-3 letters: deists, desert, desire. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-p-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: disreputes, disrespect, distempers, predigests, presidents, redeposits, spideriest. | |
+2 letters: disrespects, pasteurised, pederasties, pedestrians, predestines, rinderpests, sidestepper. | |
+3 letters: copresidents, depositaries, depositories, desperations, disrespected, interspersed, intrepidness, proselytised, sidesteppers, slipstreamed, spiritedness, stereopsides, superintends. | |
+4 letters: disparateness, disrespectful, disrespecting, endoparasites, pedestrianism, predesignates, predestinates, predigestions, presidentship, pteridosperms, serendipities, serendipitous, stipendiaries. | |
+5 letters: antidepressant, antidepression, disparagements, dispensatories, dispiritedness, disrespectable, disruptiveness, headmastership, intrepidnesses, lepidopterists, misrepresented, pedestrianisms, postdepression, predestinators, preestablished, presidentships, productiveness, redescriptions, spiritednesses, superinsulated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 52 53 49 53 54 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-. ... .. ... - . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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