repeat
Use Repeat in a sentence
verb (used with object)
1.
to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
2.
to say or utter in reproducing the words, inflections, etc., of another: to repeat a sentence after the teacher.
3.
to reproduce (utterances, sounds, etc.) in the manner of an echo, a phonograph, or the like.
4.
to tell (something heard) to another or others.
5.
to do, make, or perform again: to repeat an action.
verb (used without object)
7.
to do or say something again.
8.
to cause a slight regurgitation: The onions I ate are repeating on me.
9.
to vote illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.
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noun
10.
the act of repeating.
11.
something repeated; repetition.
12.
a duplicate or reproduction of something.
13.
a decorative pattern repeated, usually by printing, on a textile or the like.
14.
Music.
a.
a passage to be repeated.
b.
a sign, as a vertical arrangement of dots, calling for the repetition of a passage.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English repeten (v.) < Middle French repeter < Latin repetere to attack again, demand return of, equivalent to re- re- + petere to reach towards, seek (cf. perpetual, petulant)
1325–75; Middle English repeten (v.) < Middle French repeter < Latin repetere to attack again, demand return of, equivalent to re- re- + petere to reach towards, seek (cf. perpetual, petulant)
Related forms
re·peat·a·ble, adjective
re·peat·a·bil·i·ty, noun
non·re·peat, noun
self-re·peat·ing, adjective
un·re·peat·a·ble, adjective
Synonyms
1. iterate, recite, rehearse. 1, 5. Repeat, recapitulate, reiterate refer to saying a thing more than once. To repeat is to do or say something over again: to repeat a question, an order. To recapitulate is to restate in brief form, to summarize, often by repeating the principal points in a discourse: to recapitulate an argument. To reiterate is to do or say something over and over again, to repeat insistently: to reiterate a refusal, a demand. 3. echo, reecho.
1. iterate, recite, rehearse. 1, 5. Repeat, recapitulate, reiterate refer to saying a thing more than once. To repeat is to do or say something over again: to repeat a question, an order. To recapitulate is to restate in brief form, to summarize, often by repeating the principal points in a discourse: to recapitulate an argument. To reiterate is to do or say something over and over again, to repeat insistently: to reiterate a refusal, a demand. 3. echo, reecho.
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repeat (rɪˈpiːt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | ( |
| 2. | to do or experience (something) again once or several times |
| 3. | (intr) to occur more than once: the last figure repeats |
| 4. | (tr; may take a clause as object) to reproduce (the words, sounds, etc) uttered by someone else; echo |
| 5. | (tr) to utter (a poem, speech, etc) from memory; recite |
| 6. | (intr) |
| a. (of food) to be tasted again after ingestion as the result of belching or slight regurgitation | |
| b. to belch | |
| 7. | (tr; may take a clause as object) to tell to another person (the words, esp secrets, imparted to one by someone else) |
| 8. | (intr) (of a clock) to strike the hour or quarter-hour just past, when a spring is pressed |
| 9. | (US) (intr) to vote (illegally) more than once in a single election |
| 10. | repeat oneself to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious |
| —n | |
| 11. | a. the act or an instance of repeating |
| b. (as modifier): a repeat performance | |
| 12. | a word, action, etc, that is repeated |
| 13. | an order made out for goods, provisions, etc, that duplicates a previous order |
| 14. | a duplicate copy of something; reproduction |
| 15. | radio, television a further broadcast of a programme, film, etc, which has been broadcast before |
| 16. | music a passage that is an exact restatement of the passage preceding it |
| [C14: from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere to seek again, from | |
| usage Since again is part of the meaning of repeat, one should not say something is repeated again | |
| repeata'bility | |
| —n | |
| re'peatable | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
repeat
late 14c., from O.Fr. repeter "say or do again, get back, demand the return of" (13c.), from L. repetere "do or say again, attack again," from re- "again" + petere "go toward, seek, demand, attack" (see petition). Specific meaning "to take a course of education over again"
is recorded from 1945, Amer.Eng. The noun is first recorded 1556.
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Example sentences
Repeat on the other three sides of the cup and each remaining egg cup.
But these elements fit together in ways which never properly repeat themselves.
Each participant listened to and was asked to repeat a handful of stories, and then to remember them after getting out of the car.
Trim after each wave of bloom to encourage repeat flowering.
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