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repeat

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Word definitions for repeat in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repeat \Re*peat"\ (-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repeated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Repeating .] [F. r['e]p['e]ter, L. repetere; pref. re- re- + petere to fall upon, attack. See Petition .] To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An iteration; a repetition. 2 A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun. 3 Patterns of nucleid acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome. vb. (context ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a repeat prescription (= one that you have regularly ) ▪ I went to the surgery to pick up a repeat prescription. frequent/constant/repeated references ▪ Medieval literature contains frequent references to insanity. ...

Usage examples of repeat.

Not long afterwards, they repeated the experiment, this time by persuading their mother and father to watch the episodes of the television serial Brookside which dealt with a sexually abusive father who was buried under the patio.

Stone, call up the druggist, repeat the number to him, and ask if it calls for your aconitine prescription.

It is evenly and not too thickly covered with fine sand or lycopodium powder and then caused to vibrate acoustically by the repeated drawing of a violin-bow with some pressure across the edge of the plate until a steady note becomes audible.

If this is not satisfactory repeat the assay, adding an extra gram of nitre for each 4 grams of lead in excess of that required, or 1 gram of flour for a 12-gram deficiency.

And in the event, it has hitherto been found, that, though some sensible inconveniencies arise from the maxim of adhering strictly to law, yet the advantages overbalance them, and should render the English grateful to the memory of their ancestors, who, after repeated contests, at last established that noble, though dangerous principle.

One of the best agents employed to make a decided impression upon the vascular system, subdue inflammation, and modify its action, is the fluid extract of veratrum viride, administered in full doses, and repeated until the system shows its effects in a decided manner.

Constantinople, who delighted to repeat, perhaps to adorn, the tale of their misery.

Hearing the synchronized voices repeat the same formulas, evasive, affectless, cut off from whatever they had once been by promises of what they would never get to collect on?

The persecution of the Imperial family, to which Theodosius himself had been indebted for his fortune, was now aggravated by recent and repeated injuries.

This step completed, he passed one of the aromatic branches several times over the candle flame, dipped it in the glowing water, and sprinkled Alec from head to foot, repeating the flame and water process several times.

With a stern gesture, the wizard firmly indicated that Alec should not repeat the gesture.

Clucking and grunting all the while, they repeated the performance over and over while Alec and Beka watched in silent delight.

Hebrew alphabet, became the repeated sh, or shin, the next-to-last letter, in sheshach.

In this particular message, he switched to another alphabet after 24 letters, but in another example he followed the more normal procedure of repeating the alphabets over and over again in groups of 24.

Another normal alphabet, which merely repeats the initial letters of the horizontal ciphertext alphabets, runs down the left side.