单词 | repeat |
释义 | re·peat ![]() v. re·peat·ed, re·peat·ing, re·peats v.tr. 1. To say again: Could you repeat the question? 2. To utter in duplication of another's utterance: repeated the customer's complaint in disbelief. 3. To recite from memory: repeated the poem verbatim. 4. To tell to another: repeated what he had heard that morning. 5. To do, experience, or produce again: repeat past successes; repeat a course; repeat a pattern. 6. To express (oneself) in the same way or words: repeats himself constantly. v.intr. 1. a. To say something again. b. To do or experience something again, especially to win a championship for a second time in a row. c. To occur or happen again: The melody repeats in the refrain. 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 a. A passage or section that is repeated. b. 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 the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] re·peat′a·bili·ty n. re·peata·ble adj. Synonyms: repeat, iterate, reiterate, restate These verbs mean to state again: repeated the warning; iterate a demand; reiterated the question; restated the obvious. |
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