Repeat

Definition: Repeat

Repeat

Noun

1. An event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's".

Verb

1. To say or state again; "She kept reiterating her request..", "``Just barely'' , he said, and repeated his paraphrase:".

2. Make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick".

3. Happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story".

4. To say again or imitate: "followers echoing the cries of their leaders.".

5. Do over; "They would like to take it over again".

6. Repeat an earlier theme of a musical composition.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "repeat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Computing

Business

Military

Public Administration

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Repeat

Affirmation

Swear by; (believe); insist upon, take one's stand upon; emphasize, lay stress on; assert roundly, assert positively; lay down, lay down the law; raise one's voice, dogmatize, have the last word; rap out; repeat; reassert, reaffirm.

Duplication

Verb: double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat; renew.

Imitation

Verb: imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo, reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel.

Impulse

Get into the way, get into the knack of; learn; cling to, adhere to; repeat; acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick; addict oneself to, take to, get into.

Memory

Get at one's fingers' ends, have at one's fingers', learn at one's fingers', know one's lesson, say one's lesson, repeat by heart, repeat by rote; say one's lesson; repeat, repeat as a parrot; have at one's fingers' ends.

Repetition

Verb: repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble.

Reproduction

Verb: reproduce; restore; revive, renovate, renew, regenerate, revivify, resuscitate, reanimate; remake, refashion, stir the embers, put into the crucible; multiply, repeat; resurge.

Crosswords: Repeat

The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you, or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future (A Fish Called Wanda; writing credit: John Cleese; Charles Crichton)

You repeat Third Reich as though you expected there to be others (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

Could you repeat that, sir (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks)

Pretzels. Repeat, we need pretzels (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

My friend Joe, I repeat, put on anti-radiation clothing and tried to stop the female enemy agent from stealing the weapons from the base (Alien Beasts; writing credit: Carl J. Sukenick)

repeat ("Smells Like Teen Spirit"; performing artist: Nirvana)

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. (references; author: Mark Twain)

As I said before, I never repeat myself. (references; author: unknown)

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. (references; author: unknown)

Repeat Performance (1947)

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Books

• A Swing for a Lifetime: How You Can Build One and Make It Repeat With This Proven Method from the Game's Greatest Teachers (Golf Digest Learning Lib) (reference)

• Design Your Own Repeat Patterns: A Quick and Easy Approach (reference)

• Doomed to Repeat It (reference)

• Repeat After Me (reference)

• Science Treasures: Let's Repeat the Great Experiments (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Repeat Offender (reference)

• Repeat the Sounding Joy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Cisco Systems Fasthub 400 24-Port Autos 10/100 Manageable Stackable Repeat (reference)

• Digi Lan 2 Port Modular Repeater Repeat 10BT 1Aui (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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The mature schizont of P. vivax contains 12 - 24 merozoites, a product of asexual division. It will eventually rupture, and the merozoites will invade other erythrocytes to repeat the erythrocytic schizogony, or will develop into gametocytes. Credit: CDC.

An immature trophozoite may mature into an erythrocytic schizont or gametocytes. When the erythrocytic schizont ruptures, merozoites spill into the blood and repeat the cycle of infecting erythrocytes. Credit: CDC.

Al, you make history repeat itself!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Und ve vill forget und forgif, eh! so? : Oh! sure, say just repeat that in French ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Homemade pile driver. Men on right run violently backward hoisting hammer on left, then slack off and repeat, thus driving pile to form current diversion. National park area near Winona, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Repeat after me, "Only you -- ". Credit: Library of Congress.

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Then they may appeal, as Jephtha did, to heaven, and repeat their appeal till they have recovered the native right of their ancestors, which was, to have such a legislative over them, as the majority should approve, and freely acquiesce in. (Second Treatise of Government)

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I do but repeat what our traveler told us.

For, we repeat, men like advancement

I will ask you now, all of you, to repeat after me the act of contrition, kneeling here in this humble chapel in the presence of God.

From this way of reasoning the author drew several moral applications useful in the conduct of life, but needless here to repeat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Repeat bone mass measurement after 1 to 2 years. (references)

It is not uncommon for patients to require repeat surgery. (references)

Confirming a diagnosis of FSGS may require repeat biopsies. (references)

Business

They are also repeat visitors, with 70% having visited the U.S. before. (references)

Repeat customers tend to take a longer trip normally for seven days and longer. (references)

However, the French customer is a repeat visitor who, having experienced the most popular destinations, is now looking for new activities and destinations. (references)

Children

Brazil

Fully 40 percent of first-graders repeat the year, and in a number of states first-graders are more likely to fail than to pass. (references)

Civil Liberties

Algeria

The punishments are doubled for repeat offenders. (references)

Azerbaijan

Since that time there has not been a repeat of sustained and violent attacks, which occurred at that time against unregistered religious groups. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

Currently, 80 percent of Colombians travel on a repeat basis. (references)

Switzerland

About nine out of ten Swiss travelling to the U.S. are repeat visitors. (references)

Thailand

A well-trained after sales service team can increase the possibility of repeat orders. (references)

Human Rights

Bahamas

The Bail Act prohibits bail for repeat offenders and those accused of certain violent crimes. (references)

Portugal

Judges argue that preventive detention is justified by the high incidence (40 percent) of repeat offenders. (references)

Liberia

The ICRC is allowed to visit persons held in prison facilities and police detention centers without third parties present and to make regular repeat visits. (references)

Minorities

Poland

In March several thousand students, journalists, and politicians removed vulgar and racist slogans from walls in the city of Lodz, a repeat of their efforts in 2000. The small Ukrainian and Belarussian minorities occasionally experienced petty harassment and discrimination. (references)

Political Economy

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Korea's useable foreign currency reserves grew to over $100 billion by September 2001, which significantly reduced Korea's vulnerability to a repeat of the 1997-98 financial crisis, when Korea nearly exhausted its foreign exchange reserves. (references)

HONDURAS

Through cooperation within the Tripartite Commission (unions, MOL, maquila association), the number of unannounced and repeat visits to maquila plants by inspectors from the MOL has increased, improving the MOL's effectiveness in enforcing worker rights and child labor laws. (references)

Political Rights

Macedonia

Claiming that the Government was incapable of conducting a fair vote in the contested precincts, the SDSM later withdrew those complaints and did not press for another repeat of the voting. (references)

Chad

According to several observers, President Deby's first-round victory was marked by irregularities, including voting by minors and unregistered voters, early and repeat voting by nomad groups, election day campaigning by the ruling party, and the presence of government officials and the military in polling stations during the voting. (references)

Azerbaijan

Following domestic and international objections, the Constitutional Court in 2000, voided the results in four districts (in addition to several voided by the Central Election Commission) and repeat elections took place on January 7. International observers reported that the administration of those elections was generally better than in November 2000, but violations still occurred. (references)

Trade

Mexico

It is important to repeat that these procedures apply only to SEC-issued NOMs. (references)

Women

Greece

Conviction rates on rape charges are low for those accused for the first time, but sentences are harsh for repeat offenders. (references)

Worker Rights

United Arab Emirates

Repeat violators will be subject to increased fines and truck seizure periods. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "repeat": Ankyrin Repeat ♦ automatic Repeat Request ♦ don't you repeat it to smb.! ♦ have to repeat a year ♦ HIV Long Terminal Repeat ♦ pattern repeat ♦ repeat a poem ♦ repeat after me! ♦ repeat as a parrot ♦ repeat coil ♦ repeat examination ♦ repeat in music ♦ repeat itself ♦ repeat key ♦ repeat loop ♦ repeat mark ♦ repeat offender ♦ repeat oneself ♦ repeat order ♦ repeat performance ♦ repeat purchasing ♦ repeat sign ♦ repeat student ♦ repeat to ♦ step and repeat camera ♦ Tandem Repeat Sequences ♦ Terminal Repeat Sequences ♦ to repeat ♦ To repeat one's self ♦ To repeat signals ♦ Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion ♦ weave repeat. Additional references.

Beginning with "repeat": repeat-action, repeat-call, repeat-flowering, repeat-print, repeat-recording, repeat-study, repeat-use.

Ending with "repeat": auto-repeat, half-a-repeat, half-repeat, step-and-repeat.

Afrikaans

herhaal. (various references)

Albanian

ritregoj (rehearse), ritransmetim (rerun), votoj pa të drejtën, them përmendsh, përsëritje (encore, iterance, iteration, recapitulation, recurrence, reduplication, rehearsal, reiteration, relapse, renewal, repetition, replication), përsërit (duplicate, echo, ingeminate, recapitulate, recite, reduplicate, rehearse, reiterate, renew, replicate, reword, say over), përsëris (duplicate, echo, ingeminate, recapitulate, recite, reduplicate, rehearse, reiterate, renew, replicate, reword, say over). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كرر (do again, duplicate, echo, exalt, hammer out, iterate, rectify, redouble, reduplicate, refine, rehearse, reiterate, renew, say again), ‏قال ثانية, ‏تكرر (echo, recur, repetition, run, sublimation), ‏تجدد (be renewed, modernization, regenerate, regeneration, rejuvenate, rejuvenation, renaissance, renewal, renovation, resurrection, revival), ‏صوت اكثر من مرة, ‏خرج رائحة كريه, ‏أفشى سرا (betray, blab, disclose, divulge, expose, let on), ‏أعاد في الفصل الدراسي, ‏أعاد البث (rebroadcast, relay), ‏أعاد (bring round, carry back, get back, give back, go over, iterate, keep, push out, put back, reestablish, remit, repay, resit, restart, restore, return, revert, send back, take back, throw back), ‏شىء مكرر. (various references)

Basque

berregin (repeat to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

казвам наизуст, гласувам незаконно два пъти, знак за повторение, причинявам оригване, повторна пратка от същата стока, повторение (doubling, iterance, iteration, rehearsal, reiteration, repetition, rerun), повтарящ се мотив, повтарящ се десен, повтарям се (recur, redouble, repeat oneself), повтарям (echo, geminate, go over, ingeminate, re echo, recrudesce, reduplicate, rehearse, renew, replay, reproduce, rerun, say over), издавам тайна (babble, blab, spill the beans, tell). (various references)

Catalan

repetir. (various references)

Chinese 

重覆 (repeated, repeating), 疊 (chronic disease, fold up), 復述 (retell). (various references)

Czech

opakovat (encore, re echo, rehearse, reiterate, re-play, review). (various references)

Danish

gentage (retry, to repeat). (various references)

Dutch

herhalen (iterate, to execute successively a series of instructions), nazeggen. (various references)

Esperanto

ripeti, rediri. (various references)

Faeroese

taka upp aftur. (various references)

Farsi 

تکرارکردن (Reduplicate, Rehearse, Reiterate, Renew), تکرار (Frequency, Practice, Practise, Recapitulation, Reduplication, Rehearsal, Renewal, Repetition, Tautology, Use), تجدید (Renewal, Repetition, Restoration, Resumption, Revival), دوباره گفتن , دوباره ساختن (Reproduce), دوباره انجام دادن (Redo), بازگفتن (Recount, Restate, Unreel), بازگوکردن (Relate), بازگو (Repetition), بازانجام (Repetition). (various references)

Finnish

toistaa (reiterate). (various references)

French

répéter (rehearse, reiterate, renew), redire (reiterate), répétition (recurrence, rehearsal, reiteration, repetition). (various references)

German

Wiederholung (duplication, iteration, rebroadcast, recapitulation, recurrence, reiteration, reiterativeness, repeating, repetition, replay, rerun, retake, retaking, retry, revision, systrophe), wiederholen (iterate, rebroadcast, recapitulate, reiterate, replay, replicate, retake, retry, review, revise, rollback, stay down, to iterate, to repeat, to replicate, to rerun, to retry), Repetieren (revise, revision). (various references)

Greek 

επαναλαμβάνω (go over, go through, iterate, rehearse, reiterate, restate, resume). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשוב (come back, go back, repent, return, revert), לחזור על (court, go round, iterate, review, woo), לכפול (double, duplicate, multiply), ל�"ש� ות (instruct, teach), חזר (return, review). (various references)

Hungarian

ismétlés (iterance, iteration, reduplication, rehearsal, reiteration, repetition, replay, revision, rote). (various references)

Indonesian

ulangan (encore, quiz), mengulangi (redo), membaliki (return to). (various references)

Italian

ripetere (echo, iterate, recur, replay, replicate, retry, rollback, run through, say), ripetizione (private lesson, repetition, rotation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

繰�"し (cycle, cyclic, repeated), リ�"ア山猫 (liberation, libido, Libyan wildcat, lift, liftback, living, living kitchen, living room, living room set, living stock, makeover, rebate, reboot, reference, reference guide, referencer, refinance, refine, reflation, reflect, reflection, reflective, reform instructor, reform plan, refrain, refresh, refreshment, repeater, replace, replicate, replication, reply, repression, reprint, reproduction, revision, rib, rib roast, rift, ripple, rivet, updating). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リ�"ート , くりかえし (cycle, cyclic, reiteration, repeated, repetition, repetition of kanji). (various references)

Korean 

반복 (iteration, iterative, repeating, repetition, repetitive). (various references)

Lombard

dì ancamò. (various references)

Malay

ulangi, mengulangi. (various references)

Manx

reesht (again, anew, once again, once more), jannoo reesht, jannoo ass y noa (innovate, remake, renew), imraa (annotation, commemorate, mention, rehearse, remember the dead, repetition, report, speak of, voice, voice as opinion), gra harrish (rehearse), cheet harrish (repetition), brooightooil (belch, debouch, flatulent, vomit, vomit as chimney smoke), aaloayrt (recite, relate), aachreeley (retransmission), aacheau (repeating). (various references)

Norwegian

gjenta. (various references)

Occitan

repetir. (various references)

Papiamen

ripití. (various references)

Pig Latin

epeatray.(various references)

Polish

powtarzać. (various references)

Portuguese

repetir (con, do over, double, ingeminate, play back, reduplicate, reecho, rehearse, reiterate, replicate), reiterar (ding, ingeminate, reaffirm, reiterate). (various references)

Romanian

reproduce (breed, copy, imitate, reproduce), repetiţie (rehearsal, repetition), repetat (continually, frequent, iterative, persistent, persistently, repeatedly, twice), repeta (con, go over, ingeminate, iterate, re echo, reaffirm, recapitulate, reduplicate, rehearse, reiterate, resound, review), reluare (continuation, renewal, repetition, resumption, revival), reedita (re-edit, reissue, reprint, republish), reclama (ask, call for, claim, demand, denounce, necessitate, need, reclaim, require), recita (go through, recite, say, spout), reînnoire a unei comenzi, reînnoi (piece up, redintegrate, renew, renovate, reopen, resume), trage repetiţie, se repeta, face repetiţii. (various references)

Russian 

репетировать (rehearse), говорить наизусть, отрыгиваться, повторять повторение, повторять (ingeminate, iterate, reduplicate, rehearse, reiterate, replicate, resound, reword, say over), повторный (recurrent, relapsing, repetitive), повторение (iterance, iteration, recurrence, reduplication, rehash, rehearsal, reiteration, relapse, repetition, switchback), передавать (abalienate, circulate, communicate, consign, convey, deliver, deliver over, devolve, give, hand over, hand over to, impart, leave, pass, pass on, reach, relegate, sign away, transfer, transfuse, transmit, turn over), исполнение на бис. (various references)

Scottish

aithris (imitation, narration, recital, rehearsal, rehearse, tell, tell so Irish *ati-ris). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ponovni, ponovljen (repeated), ponoviti (play back, reduplicate, rehash, reiterate, replicate, restate, say over, work over), ponavljanje (iterance, iteration, playback, reduplication, rehearsal, reiteration, repetition, rerun, review), nizati (string). (various references)

Spanish

repetir (echo, encore, follow up, play back, re echo, replay, retail, retake). (various references)

Swedish

upprepa (echo, ingeminate, iterate, parrot, reduplicate, reecho, reiterate, renew, reproduce, say over and over again), repetera (rehearse, revise), förnya (innovate, novelise, recruit, redintegrate, renew, revive, revivify). (various references)

Turkish

yinelenmek, yinelemek (iterate, quote, recapitulate, recur, renew), yineleme (instauration, quote, reiteration), tekrarlamak (duplicate, go over, ingeminate, iterate, play back, rebroadcast, recap, recapitulate, recrudesce, recur, re-enact, rehearse, reiterate, relapse, renew, replicate, retell, return, revise, say, say over), tekrarlama (encore, iteration, quotation, recap, recapitulation, recrudescence, rehash, rehearsal, reiteration, repetition, return), tekrar etmek (quote, review, say over), tekrar edilen şey, tekrar (afresh, again, all over, all over again, anew, encore, once more, over, over again, re-, recap, recapitulation, recurrence, reiteration, repetition, review), nakarat (burden, chorus, leitmotif, leitmotiv, refrain), ezberden okumak (recite, reel off, rehearse), aralıksız ateş etmek, ağzına gelmek. (various references)

Turkmen 

gaяtalmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

говорити напам'ять, виконання на біс, повторюватися (reduplicate), повторювати (iterate, reduplicate, rehearse, reiterate, replicate), повторення (iterance, iteration, reduplication, rehearsal, reiteration, relapse, repetition). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lặp lại (iterance, repetition, reproduction). (various references)

Welsh

mynychu (attend, frequent), dyblu (double), ailadrodd. (various references)

Zulu

-phinda. (various references)

instaura, instaurabis, instaurabo, instaurabunt, instauranda, instaurandum, instaurare, instaurarent, instauraret, instaurari, instauras, instaurastis, instaurat, instaurati, instauratur, instauraverat, instauravero, instauraverunt, instauravit, instauravitque, iterans, iterare, iterat, iterato, iteravit, iteres, refero, renovo, repetam, repetamus, repetere, repetes, repetit, repetitus, repeto, repetunt, replicant, replicare, reponat, repone, reponent, reponentes, reponentur, reponeres, repones, reponi, reponite, reposita, repositae, repositam, repositi, repositum, repositus, reposuerunt, reposuit, reposuitque, resumo, resumo (resumpsi; resumptum), revolvo. (various references)

recorder, repeter. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "repeat": repeatabilities, repeatability, repeatable, repeated, repeatedly, repeater, repeaters, repeating, repeats. (additional references)

Words ending with "repeat": rerepeat. (additional references)

Words containing "repeat": rerepeated, rerepeating, rerepeats, unrepeatable. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Repeat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dreweatt, Irapuato, rebead, rebeat, Reepham, repat, repeak, repear, repect, repelt, repet, repete, Repetto, Replat, replead, repleat, repoman, repteat, respeak, reteat, Rokeach, rubayat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: retape.

-1 letter: apter, arete, eater, etape, pater, peart, perea, peter, prate, taper.

-2 letters: aper, pare, part, pate, pear, peat, peer, pert, prat, pree, rape, rapt, rate, reap, rete, tape, tare, tarp, tear, tepa, trap, tree.

-3 letters: ape, apt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ere, eta, par, pat, pea, pee, per, pet, rap, rat, ree.

+1 letter: adepter, operate, pearter, peatier, petrale, pleater, predate, preheat, prelate, pretape, repeats, replate, retaped, retapes, tapered, taperer, tempera, trapeze.

+2 letters: accepter, aperient, aperture, asperate, attemper, becarpet, carpeted, departed, departee, depurate, earthpea, ephorate, operated, operates, operetta, paltered, palterer, parakeet, parented, pargeted, parietes, parterre, pattered, patterer, pearlite, peartest, pederast, perfecta, permeant, permeate, perorate, petrales, pleaters, praefect, praelect, preacted, predated, predates, preenact, preheats, prelates, prepaste, pretaped, pretapes, pretaste, pretreat, protease, pterylae, reaccept, recarpet, repartee, repasted, repeated, repeater, replated, replates, rerepeat, separate, tampered, tamperer, taperers, temperas, threaped, threaper, trapesed, trapeses, trapezes.