repeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpiːt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpit/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpit/
ipa: /ˈɹi.pit/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: repeats
form: repeating
form: repeated
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form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
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form: repeated
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form: repeatest
form: repeated
form: repeatedst
form: repeats
form: repeateth
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Etymology: From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, repetere, from the prefix re- (“again”) + peto (“attack, beseech”).
Senses: examples: text: The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.
text: I'll tell you my secret, but first promise me you won't repeat it to anyone else!
text: I don't mind talking about the incident, but one gets tired of repeating themself after the hundredth time.
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1942, Franklin Roosevelt, 1:12 from the start, in Roosevelt Answers Critics - 1942 (1942), British Pathé:
glosses: To do or say again (and again).
topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: To refill (a prescription).
examples: text: A day like that has not yet repeated itself.
glosses: To happen again; recur.
examples: text: Their rationale with repeating me was that the prior program had not been of sufficient quality to teach me the error of my ways.
ref: 2008, Ken Jensen, Ronda Del Boccio, It Takes Guts to Be Me: How an Ex-marine Beat Bipolar Disorder:
glosses: To echo the words of (a person).
glosses: To strike the hours, as a watch does.
examples: text: He[…] repeats the danger of the burning town.
ref: a. 1687, Edmund Waller, The Battel of the Summer Islands:
glosses: To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
topics: law
glosses: To repay or refund (an excess received).
examples: text: Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.
text: Use "say again" instead of repeat on the radio. Repeat will bring in artillery fire.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: procedure word
glosses: 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.
glosses: To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
Synonyms: sense: to do or say again
word: redo
word: reiterate
word: reprise
word: rework see also Thesaurus:reiterate
sense: to happen again
word: reoccur
word: recrudesce
word: recourse
word: recur
word: rehappen
word: repeat
Hyponyms: word: relapse
topics: medicine
sciences
word: revolve
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
rinse-repeat
run and repeat
short tandem repeat
step and repeat
tandem repeat
trinucleotide repeat disorder
variable tandem repeat locus
Related terms: word: repeated
word: repeatedly
word: repeating
word: repeats
word: repetition
word: repetitions
word: repetitious
word: repetitive
word: reiterate