# repeat
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, repetere, from the prefix re- (“again”) + peto (“attack, beseech”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹɪˈpiːt/
** Audio (London); “to repeat”:(file)
* (General American)
** (verb) IPA: /ɹɪˈpit/
*** Audio (California):(file)
** (noun) IPA: /ɹɪˈpit/, /ˈɹi.pit/
*** Audio (California):(file)
* (Canada) IPA: /ɹɪˈpiːt/
** Audio (Canada):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːt

### Verb

repeat (third-person singular simple present repeats, present participle repeating, simple past and past participle repeated)
* (transitive) To do or say again (and again).
    The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.
    I'll tell you my secret, but first promise me you won't repeat it to anyone else!
    I don't mind talking about the incident, but one gets tired of repeating themself after the hundredth time.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
** 1942, Franklin Roosevelt, 1:12 from the start, in Roosevelt Answers Critics - 1942 (1942)‎, British Pathé:From Berlin and Tokyo and Rome, we have been described as a nation of weaklings- playboys- who would hire British soldiers or Russian soldiers or Chinese soldiers to do our fighting for us. Let them repeat that now. Let them tell that to General McArthur and his men. Let them tell that to the sailors who today are hitting hard in the far waters of the Pacific. Let them tell that to the boys in the Flying Fortresses. Let them tell that to the Marines.
* (transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
* (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
    A day like that has not yet repeated itself.
* (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
** 2008, Ken Jensen, Ronda Del Boccio, It Takes Guts to Be Me: How an Ex-marine Beat Bipolar Disorder:Their rationale with repeating me was that the prior program had not been of sufficient quality to teach me the error of my ways.
* (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
* (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
** a. 1687, Edmund Waller, The Battel of the Summer Islands:He […] repeats the danger of the burning town.
* (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
* (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
    Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.
    Use "say again" instead of repeat on the radio. Repeat will bring in artillery fire.
* To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.

#### Synonyms

* (to do or say again): redo, reiterate, reprise, rework see also Thesaurus:reiterate
* (to happen again): reoccur; see also Thesaurus:repeat

#### Derived terms

* please repeat after me
* repeatedly
* repeating decimal
* repeating unit
* repeat itself
* repeat offend
* repeat offender
* repeat on
* repeat oneself
* repeat unit
* rinse and repeat
* run and repeat
* short tandem repeat
* step and repeat
* tandem repeat
* trinucleotide repeat disorder
* variable tandem repeat locus

#### Related terms

* repetition
* repetitions
* repetitious
* repetitive
* repeated
* repeatedly
* repeating
* repeats

#### Translations

Afrikaans: herhaal
Arabic: كَرَّرَ (ar) (karrara), أَعَادَ (ar) (ʔaʕāda)
Egyptian Arabic: كرر (karrar)
Hijazi Arabic: كَرَّر (karrar), عاد (ʕād)
South Levantine Arabic: كَرَّر (karrar), عاد (ʕād)
Armenian: կրկնել (hy) (krknel)
Assamese: আওৰা (aüra), দোহাৰ (dühar)
Asturian: repetir
Azerbaijani: təkrarlamaq
Bashkir: ҡабатлау (qabatlaw)
Belarusian: паўтара́ць impf (paŭtarácʹ), паўтары́ць pf (paŭtarýcʹ)
Bulgarian: повта́рям (bg) impf (povtárjam)
Burmese: ထပ် (my) (htap)
Catalan: repetir (ca)
Chinese:
Eastern Min: 重複 / 重复 (tyung houk)
Mandarin: 重複 / 重复 (zh) (chóngfù)
Czech: opakovat (cs) impf, zopakovat (cs) pf
Danish: gentage (da)
Dutch: herhalen (nl), wederhalen, herdoen (nl), herzeggen (nl)
Egyptian: (wḥm)
Esperanto: rediri, ripeti
Estonian: kordama
Finnish: toistaa (fi)
French: répéter (fr)
Galician: repetir (gl)
Georgian: გამეორება (gameoreba)
German: wiederholen (de)
Greek: επαναλαμβάνω (el) (epanalamváno)
Hebrew: חזר (he) (khazár), שנה (he) (shaná)
Higaonon: liko
Hindi: दोहराना (hi) (dohrānā), फिर से कहना (phir se kahnā)
Hungarian: megismétel (hu)
Icelandic: endurtaka (is)
Ido: ridicar (io), repetar (io)
Indonesian: mengulang (id)
Interlingua: repeter
Italian: ripetere (it)
Japanese: 繰り返す (ja) (くりかえす, kurikaesu), リピートする (ja) (ripīto suru)
Kapampangan: pasibaiuan (traditional), pasibayuwan
Kazakh: қайталау (qaitalau)
Khmer: ...ម្ដងទៀត (…mdɑɑng tiət) (preceded by a verb)
Korean: 되풀이하다 (ko) (doepurihada), 반복하다 (ko) (banbokhada), 따라하다 (ttarahada)
Lao: ຊ້ຳ (sam)
Latin: repetō, iterō (la), instaurō
Latvian: atkārtot (lv)
Lithuanian: pakartoti
Malay: ulang (ms)
Maori: takarure (of something said), toai
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norman: èrpéter (Jersey), répetar (Guernsey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gjenta (no), gjenfortelle
Occitan: repetir (oc)
Old English: æftercweþan, edlæcan, eftgian
Old Javanese: wali
Persian: تکرار کردن (fa) (tekrâr kardan)
Polish: powtarzać (pl) impf, powtórzyć (pl) pf, ponowić (pl) pf (action)
Portuguese: repetir (pt)
Russian: повторя́ть (ru) impf (povtorjátʹ), повтори́ть (ru) pf (povtorítʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: поно̀вити pf
Roman: ponòviti (sh) pf
Slovak: opakovať impf
Slovene: ponoviti pf
Spanish: repetir (es), menudear (es), refrendar (es)
Swedish: repetera (sv), upprepa (sv)
Thai: ทำซ้ำ (tam sám)
Turkish: tekrarlamak (tr), yinelemek (tr), tekrar etmek (tr)
Ukrainian: повто́рювати impf (povtórjuvaty), повтори́ти pf (povtorýty)
Urdu: دوہرانا (dohrānā)
Vietnamese: lặp (vi), lặp lại (vi)
Walloon: ridire (wa), repeter (wa), rifé (wa)
Welsh: ailadrodd (cy)
White Hmong: ua dua :

### Noun

repeat (plural repeats)
* An iteration; a repetition.
    We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
* A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
* (medicine, pharmacy) A refill of a prescription.
* (genetics, biochemistry) A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
* (music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.

#### Synonyms

* (iteration; repetition): reiteration, reoccurrence; see also Thesaurus:reoccurrence

#### Derived terms

* decarepeat
* homorepeat
* direct repeat

#### Translations
### See also

* redundant

### Anagrams

* Partee, Perate, retape