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re⋅peat

  [ri-peet]
–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.
6. to go through or undergo again: to repeat an experience.
–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.
–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.
15. a radio or television program that has been broadcast at least once before.
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Origin:
1325–75; ME repeten (v.) < MF repeter < L repetere to attack again, demand return of, equiv. 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

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.
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re·peat   (rĭ-pēt' rē'pēt')   
v.   re·peat·ed, re·peat·ing, re·peats

v.   tr.

  1. To say again: repeat a question.

  2. To utter in duplication of another's utterance.

  3. To recite from memory.

  4. To tell to another.

  5. To do, experience, or produce again: repeat past successes.

  6. To express (oneself) in the same way or words: repeats himself constantly.

v.   intr.

  1. To do or say something again.

  2. To commit the fraudulent offense of voting more than once in a single election.

n.  

  1. An act of repeating.

  2. Something repeated, as an interval in athletic training.

  3. A broadcast of a television or radio program that has been previously broadcast; a rerun.

  4. Music

    1. A passage or section that is repeated.

    2. A sign usually consisting of two vertical dots, indicating a passage to be repeated.

adj.  Of, relating to, or being something that repeats or is repeated: a repeat offender; a repeat performance of the play.

[Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere, to seek again : re-, re- + petere, to seek; see pet- in Indo-European roots.]
re·peat'a·bil'i·ty n., re·peat'a·ble adj.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to state again: repeated the warning; iterate a demand; reiterated the question; restated the obvious.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

repeat 
c.1375, 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: re·peat
Pronunciation: ri-'pEt, 'rE-"
Function: noun
: genetic duplication in which the duplicated parts are adjacent to each other alongthe chromosome
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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