Definitions for repeat
rɪˈpitre·peat

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. repeat, repetition(verb)

   an event that repeats

   "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's"

2. repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell(verb)

   to say, state, or perform again

   "She kept reiterating her request"

3. duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate(verb)

   make or do or perform again

   "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"

4. recur, repeat(verb)

   happen or occur again

   "This is a recurring story"

5. repeat, echo(verb)

   to say again or imitate

   "followers echoing the cries of their leaders"

6. repeat, take over(verb)

   do over

   "They would like to take it over again"

7. reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate(verb)

   repeat an earlier theme of a composition

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. repeat(Noun)

   An iteration; a repetition.

   We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.

   Etymology: From repeter, from repeto.

2. repeat(Noun)

   A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun.

   Etymology: From repeter, from repeto.

3. repeat(Verb)

   or To do or say again (and again).

   The scientists repeat the experiment in order to confirm the result.

   Etymology: From repeter, from repeto.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Repeat(verb)

   to go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem

2. Repeat(verb)

   to make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again

3. Repeat(verb)

   to repay or refund (an excess received)

4. Repeat(noun)

   the act of repeating; repetition

5. Repeat(noun)

   that which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.)

6. Repeat(noun)

   a mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Repeat

   rē-pēt′, v.t. to do again: to speak again, to iterate: to quote from memory: to rehearse: (Scots law) to refund.—v.i. to strike the hours, as a watch: to recur: the act of repeating.—n. (mus.) a part performed a second time: a mark directing a part to be repeated.—adjs. Repeat′able; Repeat′ed, done again: frequent.—adv. Repeat′edly, many times repeated: again and again: frequently.—ns. Repeat′er, one who, or that which, repeats: a decimal in which the same figure or figures are continually repeated: a watch that strikes again the previous hour at the touch of a spring: a frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat any signal he makes: (teleg.) an instrument for automatically retransmitting a message: in calico-printing, a figure repeated at equal intervals in a pattern; Repeat′ing, the fraud of voting at an election for the same candidate more than once.—Repeating firearm, a firearm that may be discharged many times in quick succession; Repeat one's self, to say again what one has said already; Repeat signals, to repeat those of the senior officer: to make a signal again. [O. Fr. repeter (Fr. répéter)—L. repetĕre, repetitum—re-, again, petĕre, to seek.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'repeat' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3752

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'repeat' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2734

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'repeat' in Verbs Frequency: #308

Anagrams for repeat »

1. retape

How to pronounce repeat?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of repeat in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of repeat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of repeat in a Sentence

1. Jeb Bush:

   When you repeat something over and over again, that's basically a canned phrase and it validates a belief you're not ready to be president.

2. Udi Ofer:

   Jeff Sessions is pushing federal prosecutors to reverse progress and repeat a failed experiment -- the War on Drugs -- that has devastated the lives and rights of millions of Americans, ripping apart families and communities and setting millions, particularly black people and other people of color, on a vicious cycle of incarceration.

3. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905:

   Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

4. Anthony Bouadi:

   They should have a specific museum for those monuments and statues - a museum that portrays the history of slave-owners, the history of the transatlantic slave trade is very cruel, it's not a good thing. However, we have to remember what happened in the past so we don't repeat what happened.

5. Del Pino:

   We are evaluating that (blending oil) to (perhaps) repeat it, maybe we are going to repeat it, but with a different type of oil. Maybe we can find a better blend. The ideal blend is the one that best serves the market.

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