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re·peat

(rĭ-pēt′, rē′pēt′)

v. re·peat·ed, re·peat·ing, re·peats

v.tr.

1. To say again: Could you repeat the question?

2. To utter in duplication of another's utterance: repeated the customer's complaint in disbelief.

3. To recite from memory: repeated the poem verbatim.

4. To tell to another: repeated what he had heard that morning.

5. To do, experience, or produce again: repeat past successes; repeat a course; repeat a pattern.

6. To express (oneself) in the same way or words: repeats himself constantly.

v.intr.

a. To say something again.

b. To do or experience something again, especially to win a championship for a second time in a row.

c. To occur or happen again: The melody repeats in the refrain.

2. To commit the fraudulent offense of voting more than once in a single election.

1. An act of repeating.

2. Something repeated, as an interval in athletic training.

3. A broadcast of a television or radio program that has been previously broadcast; a rerun.

4. Music

a. A passage or section that is repeated.

b. A sign usually consisting of two vertical dots, indicating a passage to be repeated.

adj.

Of, relating to, or being something that repeats or is repeated: a repeat offender; a repeat performance of the play.

[Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere, to seek again : re-, re- + petere, to seek; see pet- in Indo-European roots.]

re·peat′a·bil′i·ty n.

re·peat′a·ble adj.

Synonyms: repeat, iterate, reiterate, restate
These verbs mean to state again: repeated the warning; iterate a demand; reiterated the question; restated the obvious.

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repeating

(rɪˈpiːtɪŋ)

adj

1. repeating or saying again

2. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) artillery (of a firearm) capable of discharging several shots without reloading

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Noun

repeating - the act of doing or performing again

repetition

continuance, continuation - the act of continuing an activity without interruption

echolalia - (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)

iteration - doing or saying again; a repeated performance

redundancy - repetition of an act needlessly

reiteration, reduplication - the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof)

copying - an act of copying

action replay, instant replay, replay - the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape

renewal - the act of renewing

replication - the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion; "scientists will not believe an experimental result until they have seen at least one replication"

Translations

επαναληπτικός

ripetente

repeating

[rɪˈpiːtɪŋ] ADJ [clock, rifle] → de repetición; [pattern] → repetido (Math) → periódico

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" 'Carriage to be at the door at two-thirty,' " said Lady Lundie, repeating the final words of the memorandum while she wrote them.

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His wife was still leaning out of the window, and kept repeating "I ca'n't see that pig!

The appeal was evidently addressed to the Lord Chancellor, who instantly replied, in a shrill monotone, like a little boy repeating the alphabet, "As I was remarking, your Sub-Excellency, this portentous movement--"

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As he mounted, the call or song began to sound in his ears again, and, looking above, he saw the face of the little creature looking down out of a Glory of her long bright radiant hair, and musically repeating to him, like a vision:

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Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she got to the part about her repeating `YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM,' to the Caterpillar, and the words all coming different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath, and said

`What IS the use of repeating all that stuff,' the Mock Turtle interrupted, `if you don't explain it as you go on?

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"Say the words," said the Ape-man, repeating, and the figures in the doorway echoed this, with a threat in the tone of their voices.

A kind of rhythmic fervour fell on all of us; we gabbled and swayed faster and faster, repeating this amazing Law.

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The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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They first repeated the word "sak" a number of times, and then Tars Tarkas made several jumps, repeating the same word before each leap; then, turning to me, he said, "sak!" I saw what they were after, and gathering myself together I "sakked" with such marvelous success that I cleared a good hundred and fifty feet; nor did I this time, lose my equilibrium, but landed squarely upon my feet without falling.

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"Thus Caedmon, keeping in mind all he heard, and, as it were, chewing the cud, converted the same into most harmonious verse; and sweetly repeating the same, made his masters in their turn his hearers.

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Grade repetition, also called 'repeating' a year level in Australia (Anderson, 2008), or 'grade retention' in the United States (Brophy, 2006), refers to an intervention practice whereby students 'repeat' a year level at school rather than being promoted to the next year level along with their same-age peers.