braze vs persist

braze

verb
  • To cover with brass, or as with brass. 

  • To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness. 

noun
  • A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore. 

persist

verb
  • To go on stubbornly or resolutely. 

  • To repeat an utterance. 

  • To cause to persist; make permanent. 

  • To continue to exist. 

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