What's the difference between endure and persevere?

Endure


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.
  • (v. i.) To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
  • (v. t.) To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather.
  • (v. t.) To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.
  • (v. t.) To harden; to toughen; to make hardy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
  • (2) There was no significant correlation between mitochondrial volume and number of SO fibers following endurance exercise training.
  • (3) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
  • (4) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (5) Respiratory muscle endurance at a given level of load was assessed from the time of exhaustion and from the time course of the change in the power spectrum (centroid frequency) of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG).
  • (6) The investigation included the measurement of heart rate, bioelectrical muscle activity of the right and left M. biceps brachii and M. deltoideus and muscular endurance at 50% MVC.
  • (7) First, the decrement in the maximal heart rate response to exercise (known as "chronotropic incompetence") found in the sedentary MI rat was completely reversed by endurance training.
  • (8) Collins later thanked the condemned man for what he said was the respect he showed toward the execution team and for the way he endured the ordeal.
  • (9) There were discrete linear relationships between muscle temperature and isometric endurance associated with cycling at 60% and 80% VO2max.
  • (10) Endurance times with the vest were 300 min (175 W) and 242-300 min (315 W).
  • (11) Because the changes of the arterial blood lactate (Laa) and VE coincide we defined this point as the "point of the optimal ventilatory efficiency," identical with the "O2 endurance performance limit," later called "anaerobic threshold" by Wasserman et al.
  • (12) Zuma, who had endured booing during Mandela's memorial service at this stadium, received a rapturous welcome as he entered to the sound of a military drumroll trailed by young, flag-waving majorettes.
  • (13) In multiple regression analysis of endurance capacity, the standardized regression coefficient for smoking was -0.14 for distance covered in the 12-min run and 0.10 for 16-km running time, the latter despite the low prevalence (6.9%) of regular cigarette smokers among the joggers.
  • (14) I think that those who go there, to Isis, they hate Russia for the conditions they have to endure to live,” Nazarov’s brother says.
  • (15) These results indicate that the increase in glucose storage by acute exercise is not systematically associated with an improved glucose homeostasis, suggesting that other adaptive mechanisms also contribute to the improvement of insulin sensitivity in endurance athletes.
  • (16) Nine mild to moderate asthmatic adults (three males, six females) and six non-asthmatics (one male, five females) underwent endurance running training three times per week for five weeks, at self selected running speeds on a motorized treadmill.
  • (17) But to endure a cut of £100m just after becoming the mayor and a further £23m this year has been daunting.
  • (18) Further, to study the effect of endurance training on this response, animals from each age group underwent ten weeks of treadmill running at 75% of their functional capacity.
  • (19) Already much work has been done to re-establish enduring components for Labour's electoral success: clarity of strategy, effective rebuttal, and superior field organisation with our network of community organisers.
  • (20) As expected, preexercise values of non-trained subjects revealed a much higher insulin response to glucose, and a lower glucose storage and lipid oxidation compared to results obtained in endurance trained individuals.

Persevere


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Parameters under consideration were: Form distortion, rotation, integration, perseveration, use of space, subtle motricity, score (global parameter), and time employed.
  • (2) 3, unilateral anteromedial lesions tested within 1 day increased perseverations more than lesions tested with 6 days' recovery.
  • (3) "Now, if that is the way they have gone about giving the man the job, why don't they persevere with it?
  • (4) In elementary motor perseveration once an element of a movement has begun it is no longer inhibited at the right time and continues unchecked.
  • (5) While it is impossible to predict the outcome in many individual cases, it is also apparent that gratifying long-term results in addition to palliation can be achieved if one is perseverant and persistent in the application of sound principles in the management of this disorder.
  • (6) Specific issues discussed include task difficulty, genotype effects on life span learning processes, perseveration, and early versus later experience.
  • (7) Whereas scopolamine disrupts habituation, d-amphetamine induces perseveration independently of any effects on habituation.
  • (8) Essential traits of this personality are an independent mind capable of liberating itself from dogmatic tenets universally accepted by the scientific community; the capacity and courage to look at things from a new angle; powers of combination, intuition and imagination; feu sacré and perseverance--in short, intellectual as well as moral qualities.
  • (9) It is suggested that quinpirole induces perseveration of route by affecting presynaptic release of dopamine, and that the organization of route is independent of the organization of movement.
  • (10) It is provisionally suggested that enhancement of the perseveration represents an innate response to stressful stimuli, but as animals learn mastery over the response contingencies, the persistence in adopting such a response strategy wanes.
  • (11) However, if you do persevere with Law & Order, stage two in enquiries is a run-in with detective inspector Natalie Chandler.
  • (12) Perseverations were present in the speech of both the SRD and SDAT subjects, whereas aposiopesis, logorrhea, and palilalia were more typical of the SDAT subjects.
  • (13) A question on the existence of two strategies of cognitive behaviour alteration and perseveration in rat population is under discussion.
  • (14) Two experiments demonstrated that self-perceptions and social perceptions may persevere after the initial basis for such perceptions has been completely discredited.
  • (15) The effects have been interpreted in more general terms as "behavioural disinhibition" or "response perseveration" or in more specific terms as reduced "reward delay" or as an attenuation of a "behavioural inhibition system".
  • (16) Patients with left posterior lesions usually failed to suppress the expression of previously generated words in the subsequent generation task, whereas patients with left anterior lesions stated a greater number of new (incorrect) words in the recall of previously learned words, presumed to indicate stuck-in-set perseveration of the previous generation performance.
  • (17) If we persevere, some of what we find impossible to achieve today will become possible tomorrow, will become the norm of the future, and will, we hope, give way to still better innovations as medicine continues to evolve.
  • (18) Response perseveration was investigated in an experimental procedure which has previously been shown to be sensitive to pharmacologically induced behavioral perseveration and response stereotypy.
  • (19) "Ramadan, the month of mercy, teaches us the value of unity and perseverance and we urge the British Muslim communities to continue the generous and tireless efforts to support all of those affected by the crisis in Syria and unfolding events in Iraq, but to do so from the UK in a safe and responsible way."
  • (20) I see it as a sign that he can weather a storm, persevere and come out victorious.