repeat
Plural: repeats
Noun
- an event that repeats
- "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's"
- An iteration; a repetition.
- A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
- A refill of a prescription.
- A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
- A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.
Verb
Verb Forms: repeated, repeating, repeats
- To say or do something again; to recur.
- to say, state, or perform again
- make or do or perform again
- happen or occur again
- to say again or imitate
- do over
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- To do or say again (and again).
- To refill (a prescription).
- To happen again; recur.
- To echo the words of (a person).
- To strike the hours, as a watch does.
- To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
- To repay or refund (an excess received).
- 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.
- To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
Examples
- A day like that has not yet repeated itself.
- Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.
- He hoped his winning streak would repeat in the next Scrabble game.
- I don't mind talking about the incident, but one gets tired of repeating themself after the hundredth time.
- I'll tell you my secret, but first promise me you won't repeat it to anyone else!
- The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.
- Use "say again" instead of repeat on the radio. Repeat will bring in artillery fire.
- We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, repetere, from the prefix re- (“again”) + peto (“attack, beseech”).
Synonyms
double, duplicate, echo, ingeminate, iterate, recapitulate, recur, reduplicate, reiterate, repetition, replicate, reprise, reprize, restate, retell, take over, recourse, recrudesce, redo, rehappen, reiteration, reoccur, reoccurrence, repeat, rework see also Thesaurus:reiterate
Scrabble Score: 8
repeat: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrepeat: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
repeat: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary