English Explanatory Dictionary

repeat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To do or say again (and again).
  2. To refill (a prescription).
  3. To happen again; recur.
  4. To echo the words of (a person).
  5. To strike the hours, as a watch does.
  6. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
  7. To repay or refund (an excess received).
  8. To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
  9. To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
noun
  1. An iteration; a repetition.
  2. A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
  3. A refill of a prescription.
  4. A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
  5. A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.

Pronunciation

/ɹɪˈpiːt/ En-uk-to repeat.ogg /ɹɪˈpit/ en-us-repeat.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Ajshul-repeat.wav /ˈɹi.pit/

Word forms

repeat repeats repeating repeated no-table-tags glossary repeatest repeatedst repeateth

Etymology

From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, from the prefix re- (“again”) + petō (“to attack, beseech”).

Synonyms

reiterate reprise rework see also Thesaurus:reiterate recrudesce recourse recur rehappen repeat redo reoccur reoccurrence reiteration

Related words

repeated repeatedly repeating repeats repetition repetitions repetitious repetitive reiterate redundant

Derived words

antirepeat autorepeat four-peat fourpeat hepeat hexarepeat interrepeat microrepeat misrepeat multirepeat nonrepeat octarepeat oligorepeat pentarepeat please repeat after me polyrepeat repeatability repeatable repeatedly repeater repeating decimal repeating unit repeat itself repeatless repeat offend repeat offender repeatome repeat on repeat oneself repeat sign repeat unit rerepeat rex-pat rinse and repeat rinse-repeat run and repeat short tandem repeat step and repeat subrepeat tandem repeat three-peat threepeat trinucleotide repeat disorder variable tandem repeat locus decarepeat homorepeat direct repeat
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