repeat

[ri-peet] /rɪˈpit/
verb (used with object)
1.
to say or utter again (something already said):
to repeat a word for emphasis.
2.
to say or utter in reproducing the words, inflections, etc., of another:
to repeat a sentence after the teacher.
3.
to reproduce (utterances, sounds, etc.) in the manner of an echo, a phonograph, or the like.
4.
to tell (something heard) to another or others.
5.
to do, make, or perform again:
to repeat an action.
6.
to go through or undergo again:
to repeat an experience.
verb (used without object)
7.
to do or say something again.
8.
to cause a slight regurgitation:
The onions I ate are repeating on me.
9.
to vote illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.
noun
10.
the act of repeating.
11.
something repeated; repetition.
12.
a duplicate or reproduction of something.
13.
a decorative pattern repeated, usually by printing, on a textile or the like.
14.
Music.
  1. a passage to be repeated.
  2. a sign, as a vertical arrangement of dots, calling for the repetition of a passage.
15.
a radio or television program that has been broadcast at least once before.
Origin
1325-75; Middle English repeten (v.) < Middle French repeter < Latin repetere to attack again, demand return of, equivalent to re- re- + petere to reach towards, seek (cf. perpetual, petulant)
Related forms
repeatable, adjective
repeatability, noun
nonrepeat, noun
self-repeating, adjective
unrepeatable, adjective
Synonyms
1. iterate, recite, rehearse. 1, 5. 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. echo, reecho.
Examples from the web for repeat
  • The problem begins when they interrupt lecture or discussion to ask me to repeat irrelevant details.
  • Another measure based on repeat sales suggests prices are falling.
  • Learn from mistakes-whether they are yours or others'-and try not to repeat them in the future.
  • Blooms mainly appear from early to midsummer, but some varieties repeat in late summer or fall.
  • The participating business then hopes any of those new visitors can be converted into repeat customers.
  • Then they were to scan the image into their computer and repeat it to create an entirely new pattern.
  • It did its best to learn from history, hoping never to repeat it.
  • repeat on the other three sides of the cup and each remaining egg cup.
  • Fortunately, the paranoia currently festering is not yet sufficiently widespread to repeat our earlier mistake.
  • repeat on remaining two sides, then staple all around the edges, pulling cloth tight.
British Dictionary definitions for repeat

repeat

/rɪˈpiːt/
verb
1.
(when transitive, may take a clause as object) to say or write (something) again, either once or several times; restate or reiterate
2.
to do or experience (something) again once or several times
3.
(intransitive) to occur more than once: the last figure repeats
4.
(transitive; may take a clause as object) to reproduce (the words, sounds, etc) uttered by someone else; echo
5.
(transitive) to utter (a poem, speech, etc) from memory; recite
6.
(intransitive)
  1. (of food) to be tasted again after ingestion as the result of belching or slight regurgitation
  2. to belch
7.
(transitive; may take a clause as object) to tell to another person (the words, esp secrets, imparted to one by someone else)
8.
(intransitive) (of a clock) to strike the hour or quarter-hour just past, when a spring is pressed
9.
(intransitive) (US) to vote (illegally) more than once in a single election
10.
repeat oneself, to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
noun
11.
  1. the act or an instance of repeating
  2. (as modifier): a repeat performance
12.
a word, action, etc, that is repeated
13.
an order made out for goods, provisions, etc, that duplicates a previous order
14.
a duplicate copy of something; reproduction
15.
(radio, television) a further broadcast of a programme, film, etc, which has been broadcast before
16.
(music) a passage that is an exact restatement of the passage preceding it
Derived Forms
repeatability, noun
repeatable, adjective
Usage note
Since again is part of the meaning of repeat, one should not say something is repeated again
Word Origin
C14: from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere to seek again, from re- + petere to seek
Word Origin and History for repeat
v.

late 14c., "to say what one has already said," from Old French repeter "say or do again, get back, demand the return of" (13c., Modern French répéeter), from Latin repetere "do or say again; attack again," from re- "again" (see re-) + petere "to go to; attack; strive after; ask for, beseech" (see petition (n.)).

Meaning "say what another has said" is from 1590s. As an emphatic word in radio broadcasts, 1938. Meaning "do over again" is from 1550s; specific meaning "to take a course of education over again" is recorded from 1945, American English. Related: Repeated; repeating.

n.

mid-15c., of music passages, from repeat (v.). From 1937 of broadcasts.

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