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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024re•peat /rɪˈpit/USA pronunciation v. - to say or do again:[~ + object]He repeated his words. If you don't learn from your mistakes you are likely to repeat them.
- to utter after another person has uttered words, inflections, etc.: [~ + object]Now repeat the Latin forms of the verb "to be'' after me.[used with quotations]Now, repeat, "Sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt.''
- to tell (something heard) to another:[~ + object]I asked her not to repeat what I was about to tell her.
- to undergo again:[~ + object]History seems to repeat itself.
- to appear again in taste after being eaten:[no object]Onions always seem to repeat on me.
n. [countable] - the act of repeating.
- something repeated, as a television program that has been broadcast at least once before.
re•peat•er, n. [countable]See -pet-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024re•peat (ri pēt′),USA pronunciation v.t. - to say or utter again (something already said):to repeat a word for emphasis.
- to say or utter in reproducing the words, inflections, etc., of another:to repeat a sentence after the teacher.
- to reproduce (utterances, sounds, etc.) in the manner of an echo, a phonograph, or the like.
- to tell (something heard) to another or others.
- to do, make, or perform again:to repeat an action.
- to go through or undergo again:to repeat an experience.
v.i. - to do or say something again.
- to cause a slight regurgitation:The onions I ate are repeating on me.
- Governmentto vote illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.
n. - the act of repeating.
- something repeated;
repetition. - a duplicate or reproduction of something.
- a decorative pattern repeated, usually by printing, on a textile or the like.
- Music and Dance
- a passage to be repeated.
- a sign, as a vertical arrangement of dots, calling for the repetition of a passage.
- Show Businessa radio or television program that has been broadcast at least once before.
- Latin repetere to attack again, demand return of, equivalent. to re- re- + petere to reach towards, seek (compare perpetual, petulant)
- Middle French repeter
- Middle English repeten (verb, verbal) 1325–75
re•peat′a•ble, adj. re•peat′a•bil′i•ty, n. - 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged iterate, recite, rehearse.
- 1, 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged 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.See corresponding entry in Unabridged echo, reecho.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: repeat /rɪˈpiːt/ vb - to do or experience (something) again once or several times
- (intransitive) to occur more than once: the last figure repeats
- (tr; may take a clause as object) to reproduce (the words, sounds, etc) uttered by someone else; echo
- (transitive) to utter (a poem, speech, etc) from memory; recite
- (intransitive) (of food) to be tasted again after ingestion as the result of belching or slight regurgitation
- to belch
- (tr; may take a clause as object) to tell to another person (the words, esp secrets, imparted to one by someone else)
- (intransitive) (of a clock) to strike the hour or quarter-hour just past, when a spring is pressed
- (intransitive) US to vote (illegally) more than once in a single election
- repeat oneself ⇒ to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
n - the act or an instance of repeating
- (as modifier): a repeat performance
- a word, action, etc, that is repeated
- an order made out for goods, provisions, etc, that duplicates a previous order
- a further broadcast of a programme, film, etc, which has been broadcast before
- a passage that is an exact restatement of the passage preceding it
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere to seek again, from re- + petere to seekreˈpeatable adj USAGE Since again is part of the meaning of repeat, one should not say something is repeated again |