repeat
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpiːt/
The English word “repeat” has 14 meanings listed here.
verb
- 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.
noun
- 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.
Etymology
From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, from the prefix re- (“again”) + petō (“to attack, beseech”).
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