repeat

[Re*peat·]

You can use the word repeat for things that happen again. You can use the word repeat for things that happen again. When you repeat, you do or say the same thing more than once.

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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.

Noun
an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday''s"

Verb
happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story"

Verb
to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders"

Verb
to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request"

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repeat an earlier theme of a composition

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Verb
make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"

Verb
do over; "They would like to take it over again"


v. t.
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.

v. t.
To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.

v. t.
To repay or refund (an excess received).

n.
The act of repeating; repetition.

n.
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.).

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


Repeat

Re*peat" (-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repeated; p. pr. & vb. n. Repeating.] [F. r'82p'82ter, L. repetere; pref. re- re- + petere to fall upon, attack. See Petition.] 1. 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. "I will repeat our former communication." Robynson (More's Utopia).
Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish.
2. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. [Obs.] Waller. 3. (Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received). To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn. -- To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See Reiterate.

Repeat

Re*peat" (r?-p?t"), n. 1. The act of repeating; repetition. 2. 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.). 3. (Mus.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.

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.

The act of repeating; repetition.

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Usage Examples

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all this, too, shall pass.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

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