repeat
Meanings
Plural: repeat, repeated, 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
- 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.
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, recourse, recrudesce, recur, redo, reduplicate, rehappen, reiterate, reiteration, reoccur, reoccurrence, repeat, repetition, replicate, reprise, reprize, restate, retell, rework see also Thesaurus:reiterate, take over
Scrabble Score: 8
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