repeat
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
entertainment
genetics
government
law
lifestyle
medicine
microbiology
military
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, from the prefix re- (“again”) + petō (“to attack, beseech”).
Inflected forms:
form: repeats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: repeating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: repeated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: repeated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: repeat
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: repeat
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: repeated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: repeat
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: repeatest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: repeated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: repeatedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: repeats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: repeateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: repeated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: repeat
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: repeated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: repeat
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: repeated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: repeat
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: repeating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: repeated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: repeats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To do or say again (and again).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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.
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.
gloss: To refill (a prescription).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To happen again; recur.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A day like that has not yet repeated itself.
gloss: To echo the words of (a person).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Their rationale with repeating me was that the prior program had not been of sufficient quality to teach me the error of my ways.
gloss: To strike the hours, as a watch does.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: He[…] repeats the danger of the burning town.
gloss: To repay or refund (an excess received).
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
examples: Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.
Use "say again" instead of repeat on the radio. Repeat will bring in artillery fire.
gloss: To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
pos: verb
gloss: An iteration; a repetition.
pos: noun
examples: We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
"You have just sent a telegram to Brookbend Cottage," he said to the young lady behind the brasswork lattice. "We think it may have come inaccurately and should like a repeat."
gloss: A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
pos: noun
gloss: A refill of a prescription.
pos: noun
gloss: A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
pos: noun
gloss: A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.
pos: noun
Synonyms: reiterate
reprise
rework see also Thesaurus:reiterate
recrudesce
recourse
recur
rehappen
repeat
reoccurrence
Related words: repeated
repeatedly
repeating
repeats
repetition
repetitions
repetitious
repetitive
reiterate
redundant
Derived words: antirepeat
autorepeat
four-peat
fourpeat
hepeat
hexarepeat
interrepeat
microrepeat
misrepeat
multirepeat
nonrepeat
octarepeat
oligorepeat
pentarepeat
please repeat after me
polyrepeat
repeatability
repeatable
repeatedly
repeater
repeating decimal
repeating unit
repeat itself
repeatless
repeat offend
repeat offender
repeatome
repeat on
repeat oneself
repeat sign
repeat unit
rerepeat
rex-pat
rinse and repeat
rinse-repeat
run and repeat
short tandem repeat
step and repeat
subrepeat
tandem repeat
three-peat
threepeat
trinucleotide repeat disorder
variable tandem repeat locus
decarepeat
direct repeat
homorepeat
Translations:
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡабатлау
roman: qabatlaw
lang: Bulgarian
word: повторе́ние
roman: povtorénie
lang: Urdu
word: نَشَر مُکَرَّر
roman: naśar mukarrar