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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024re•peat•er (ri pē′tər),USA pronunciation n. - a person or thing that repeats.
- a repeating firearm.
- Time[Horol.]a timepiece, esp. a watch, that may be made to strike the hour or part of the hour. Cf. clock watch.
- Educationa pupil who repeats a course or group of courses that he or she has failed.
- Governmenta person who votes illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.
- Crimea person who has been convicted and sentenced for one crime, and later for another;
recidivist. - Mathematics(no longer in technical use) a repeating decimal.
- Telecommunicationsa device capable of receiving one-way or two-way communications signals and delivering corresponding signals that are either amplified, reshaped, or both.
- Nautical, Naval Terms[Navig.]See gyro repeater.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: repeater /rɪˈpiːtə/ n - a person or thing that repeats
- Also called: repeating firearm a firearm capable of discharging several shots without reloading
- a timepiece having a mechanism enabling it to strike the hour or quarter-hour just past, when a spring is pressed
- a device that amplifies or augments incoming electrical signals and retransmits them, thus compensating for transmission losses
Also called: substitute one of three signal flags hoisted with others to indicate that one of the top three is to be repeated
re•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
- 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.
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