I. rə̇ˈpēt, rēˈp-, usu -ēd.+V verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Middle English repeten, from Middle French repeter, from Latin repetere to repeat, go back to, from re- + petere to go to or toward — more at feather
transitive verb
1.
a. : to say or state again : reiterate
repeated his command
repeated his question
b. : to say over from memory : recite
remember the rest of her lesson, and repeat correctly all those verses — Robert Browning
c. : to say after another
repeat the following words after me
d. : to make public : relate to others : divulge
I will not repeat your words … outside this cloister; because the consequences to you would certainly be fatal — Henry Adams
the child repeats everything he hears
2.
a. : to make, do, or perform again
repeated his earlier protests
was sent on a similar errand and repeated the theft — Edward Clodd
for several years this annual fete was repeated — American Guide Series: Minnesota
b. : to make appear again : cause to recur : present , show , reproduce
two end pavilions repeat the dominant motif of the central pavilion — American Guide Series: Minnesota
a game that repeated the pattern of many previous ones between the same teams
a program repeated on tape
c. : to go through or experience again
expected to repeat the years of practical banishment endured by his father — W.C.Ford
specifically : to take (a grade or course in school or college) again especially to make up a failure
had to repeat the fourth grade
repeated English composition
3. : to express or present (oneself) again in the same words, terms, or form as before
history sometimes seems to repeat itself
a writer who repeats himself shamelessly
wrote innumerable songs without ever repeating himself
intransitive verb
1. : to say, do, or accomplish something again
there were, to repeat and to conclude, three saving accidents — R.P.Blackmur
is favored to repeat as batting champion
as
a. : to vote illegally more than once in a particular election
registration of voters is designed to eliminate repeating
b. of a timepiece : to strike again the last hour and sometimes the last half hour, quarter hour, or minute if so adjusted
2. of food : to seem to rise in the gullet : give one its taste again
boiled onions always repeat on me
Synonyms:
iterate , reiterate , ingeminate : repeat is a general term centering attention on the fact of uttering, saying, or presenting again one or a number of times. iterate and reiterate may stress the fact of frequent repetitive utterance
the bird in the dusk iterating … his one phrase — C.P.Aiken
reiterated the words until her voice died away in a mumble — Gertrude Atherton
ingeminate may indicate a single repetition, a saying twice
comes … with his olive branch ingeminating peace — Pall Mall Gazette
Synonym: see in addition quote .
II. “, ˈrēˌp- noun
( -s )
Usage: often attributive
1. : the act of repeating
bloom usually from the latter part of June to the end of July, with an occasional repeat late in August — New Yorker
2. : something that is repeated : repetition: as
a.
(1) : a musical passage to be repeated in performance
(2) : a sign consisting typically of a vertical series of two or four dots that are placed before and after or often only at the end of a passage to be repeated
b. : a repeated pattern in a textile design
c. : a reorder of merchandise
d. : a repeated telegraph message
e. : a rebroadcast of a radio or television program
3. : the number of threads necessary to make the basic unit of a weave
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III. noun
: a genetic duplication in which the duplicated parts are adjacent to each other along the chromosome