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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
repeat
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.
recite/repeat a mantra
▪ He closed his eyes and began to recite a Buddhist mantra.
repeat a mistake
▪ We certainly do not want to repeat the mistakes of the past.
repeated absences (=happening again and again)
▪ Repeated absences from school can lead to children falling behind.
repeated accusations
▪ Repeated accusations of neglect were made against the authorities.
repeated requests
▪ The bank would not reveal its figures, despite repeated requests.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
▪ This attack was repeated again in 1987 in the Federation magazine, for the report had obviously hit a very raw nerve.
▪ The scene from my driveway was repeated again, this time with a Uhaul attached to the back of my car.
▪ It is the most costly spectacle on earth and it can not be repeated again this century.
▪ This inexplicable phenomenon was repeated again and again.
▪ Roll over and repeat on the other side, then repeat again on both sides.
▪ It can then be repeated again and again with guaranteed results every time.
often
▪ But they were good teachers and well respected, a fact which I have heard my sons repeat often.
▪ Both the positive and the negative aspects of the Monroe Doctrine were often repeated and reaffirmed in later years.
▪ It's a trick they repeat often, but it works every time.
▪ The combinatory, egalitarian approach which feminist psychologists favour, often repeats traditional psychological method's own procedural macho.
▪ In my talks to teachers I often repeat these five views.
▪ If repeated often enough, the stimulus will lead to uncontrollable inflation.
▪ Romario's enquiry about my verdict on Rio's girls was often repeated to me by others.
■ NOUN
experiment
▪ A researcher reports a particular result, and to verify it other scientists repeat the same experiment in their own labs.
▪ That evening I repeat the experiment with a little lamb.
▪ She repeated the experiment several times.
▪ We repeat the experiment over and over.
▪ We repeated the experiments with a precursor for protein and found that an increase in protein synthesis occurred also.
▪ Still, sooner or later, some one will have to repeat the experiment.
▪ But intra-regional conflict destroyed this initiative and made Moscow reluctant to repeat this kind of experiment.
▪ I repeated the experiment with atoms, and then with whole molecules.
history
▪ At this time a bit of history was repeated and developed.
▪ As the scholar says, history repeats itself.
▪ It is no surprise to find that there are some who believe that history is about to repeat itself.
▪ And six years later, history threatens to repeat itself in Rancho Las Isabeles.
▪ Wasn't it strange how history seemed to repeat itself?
▪ But once again, history repeated itself.
▪ So what do we do to prevent history repeating itself?
▪ Centuries later, many environmentalists worry that history is repeating itself.
mistake
▪ The Opposition seem anxious to repeat the mistakes that they made before.
▪ It might also prevent future weapons scientists from repeating the pioneers' mistakes.
▪ Brother Edward did not repeat the mistake.
▪ Funny thing is, he repeated the mistake in Game 4, getting caught in a rundown between second and third base.
▪ The past does not burden the present - but you learn by it, and do not repeat your mistakes.
▪ Most of them shouted over the intercom at every repeated mistake.
▪ This would help ensure the poorer countries did not repeat the environmental mistakes of the northern hemisphere as they pursued economic development.
▪ It can not repeat that mistake.
name
▪ The five of them, he repeated their names silently: Adam, himself, Shiva, Vivien and - Zosie.
▪ Have him repeat the familiar name.
▪ You should repeat the puppy's name at every opportunity within its hearing, so that it becomes accustomed to the sound.
▪ Eliot could not it first hear it either and bending down with a friendly expression, asked her to repeat the name.
▪ He tied me to a post in the midday sun and ordered me to repeat his name ten thousand times.
▪ At all events, when I mentioned it to Heather, she asked me to repeat the name of the restaurant.
▪ When asked why politicians repeat their names over and over, he shrugs his shoulders in helpless reply.
pattern
▪ The pattern is repeated many times over.
▪ Behavior patterns that are repeated in the course of cognitive activity are conceptualized as reflecting schemata.
▪ This is the number of pattern repeats needed per drop.
▪ Analysts agree this pattern could repeat itself in 1996.
▪ In the New Testament the pattern is repeated.
▪ As this pattern has repeated, the statistics have multiplied.
▪ Multiply the number of widths by the number of pattern repeats per drop to give the total number of pattern repeats required.
▪ This pattern repeated itself every time he pulled his portable deli out of the driveway for an overnight sales call.
procedure
▪ If it does, simply repeat the procedure until it is lying down.
▪ Get the students to exchange roles and repeat the procedure.
▪ The major challenge is to repeat the procedure with human cells.
▪ Then he would blow out the candle, and we would sit still for another five minutes and repeat the procedure.
▪ She might repeat the procedure at another specified bank in Parish and so on until the Credit was fully utilised.
▪ After this time, apply a second coat and repeat the drying procedure.
▪ He repeated the procedure twice more and laid the separate sections on the stone floor.
▪ Now repeat the procedure for the bottom E string.
process
▪ We would then return to the pool and repeat the whole process.
▪ Boil peel for 1 minute, drain, and repeat process twice more.
▪ Pause for a few moments before repeating the process to ensure that you are as relaxed as possible.
▪ This ensures a ready supply for a few weeks without having to repeat the process.
▪ He repeated this process five times.
▪ She was determined not to repeat the process with Celia.
▪ Put the pieces back in the milk, and repeat the process.
question
▪ I repeat that the question on the Order Paper tonight is irrelevant to the question before the House and the country.
▪ This time the drumming took so long that Celestine was almost ready to repeat the question.
▪ To repeat questions posed earlier: what have these to say, and how did they come to be?
▪ They repeated questions over and over, louder and louder, closer and closer.
▪ He repeated his question, and came up against the same smiling ignorance.
▪ The interval seemed so long that Paula was almost prompted to repeat the question.
▪ I repeated the question, louder this time.
▪ He repeated this last question many times, to make certain that Nina understood.
story
▪ She would read a story to them both, and ask Paul to repeat the story.
▪ He would have to repeat the story he had told to Marge.
▪ They repeat stories of how the Tower was built on a place used for ancient sacrifice.
▪ Then he repeated the story the next time you dined with friends.
▪ I just repeated the story about my speech on the scourge of gangsterism.
▪ Nor, when taping an interview with Cruz a day later, did they ask him to repeat his story.
success
▪ It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success.
▪ Their goal is to repeat the success of last year, when Kennedy joined then-Sen.
▪ He had hoped to repeat his successes of 1985 and 1987, but could not contain the accurate drawing skills of King.
▪ Most of his additions, however, repeated the success of breakthroughs.
▪ Brace, can he repeat the success he enjoyed in Berlin?
▪ He is unable to repeat his success. all possible combinations are not tried in a controlled manner.
▪ Unfortunately he hadn't repeated that success and Inspector he had remained, and would do so until he left the force.
▪ This week, she spoke about her plans to repeat her successes at Boston-based Houghton.
times
▪ The DC-ACCESS keyword may be repeated up to 10 times allowing specification of up to 100 users.
▪ It is a scene that will be repeated many times in the next week.
▪ She repeated them so many times.
▪ He repeated it thousands of times, like a haywire metronome that had lost its beat.
▪ The experiment was repeated many times, with the bats taking turns to be the starved victim.
▪ She repeated this several times in the last two days.
▪ He repeated this process five times.
▪ Cruises depart frequently all year for two-to 12-night trips, with themes repeating several times.
word
▪ The Canaletto presumably has not altered, and men still come to look at it just as they repeat Shakespeare's words.
▪ The most obvious clue: repeated words that rest on the page like ash after a fire.
▪ Hera punished Echo by making her unable to speak, except to always repeat the last words anybody said to her.
▪ She repeated the Hebrew words I taught her, but promptly forgot them again.
▪ Blood being thicker than water, he repeated, word for faltering word, everything his brother Henry had stated.
▪ I had to ask Edusha to repeat every other word.
▪ It's not a question, he just repeats the word.
▪ People also may repeat your words.
■ VERB
keep
▪ He kept repeating: sustained intellectual activity.
▪ Or why else would baseball keep repeating them?
▪ She kept repeating that he had to stay in El Salvador.
▪ She kept repeating to herself that it was an irrational fear, but logic did nothing to quell the lurking terror.
▪ That's what I keep repeating to myself.
▪ If you are sure he/she understands what is required, don't argue, don't keep repeating yourself.
▪ While no great leap forward stylistically, it has enough chewy bits to surprise listeners and keep them entertained through repeated listenings.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
history repeats itself
▪ As the scholar says, history repeats itself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "He's planning to move," she said, repeating what Bobby had told her.
▪ "I just can't believe it," he repeated.
▪ Repeat after me: "I'm not going to waste any more money on lottery tickets.''
▪ Repeat this exercise ten times every day and you'll soon have a flatter stomach.
▪ A pattern of red and green flowers is repeated on the bedspread and drapes.
▪ After the students have finished, have them exchange roles and repeat the procedure.
▪ Could you repeat question number six, please?
▪ Could you repeat the question? I wasn't listening.
▪ Henry kept repeating her phone number to himself so he wouldn't forget it.
▪ Holmes repeated his experiments to verify the existence of atoms.
▪ Holmes repeated the experiment several times and got the same results.
▪ If history repeats itself, Taylor could be up for her second Grammy award.
▪ Sam came out of the room and repeated what the doctor had said.
▪ She repeated that there was no need for alarm.
▪ The awards show will be repeated on TNN Saturday night at six.
▪ The kidnappers have repeated their demand for ransom.
▪ The news is hardly worth repeating.
▪ Why do you have to repeat everything I say?
▪ Willy has to repeat kindergarten.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A month later when Dole visited Illinois' capital, Springfield, the scene was repeated.
▪ And six years later, history threatens to repeat itself in Rancho Las Isabeles.
▪ Despite the glossy packaging he ruined Labour's chances last time and he is set to repeat the disaster.
▪ The resource person may correct a serious error and repeat the phrase again but with no trace of disapproval or reproach.
▪ This cycle repeats, until the best string is good enough.
▪ You can not, repeat not, fake it.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
avoid
▪ Politicians across the spectrum called for a change in the legal process to avoid a repeat of the suspension.
prevent
▪ It prevents repeat bids within a year and bans bidders from acting in undisclosed concert with other people.
▪ Zahner attributed that, in part, to the circuit breaker system installed to prevent a repeat of the crash of 1987.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ There's a repeat of "ER" on tonight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After 20 years, new generations would see the repeat of the cycle.
▪ Also on the rise are repeat pregnancies among teens.
▪ Make each succeeding effort a little harder, but none of the repeats should be all out.
▪ The second shadow study was a true repeat of the first, although some of the schedules were changed.
▪ What none of these groups would find reassuring is a repeat of the old Lawson line that the deficit does not matter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repeat

Repeat \Re*peat"\ (r?-p?t"), n.

  1. The act of repeating; repetition.

  2. That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).

  3. (Mus.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.

Repeat

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.]

  1. To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. ``I will repeat our former communication.''
    --Robynson (More's Utopia).

    Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish.
    --Milton.

  2. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. [Obs.]
    --Waller.

  3. (Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received).

    To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said.

    To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters.

    Syn: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See Reiterate.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
repeat

late 14c., "to say what one has already said," from Old French repeter "say or do again, get back, demand the return of" (13c., Modern French répéeter), from Latin repetere "do or say again; attack again," from re- "again" (see re-) + petere "to go to; attack; strive after; ask for, beseech" (see petition (n.)).\n

\nMeaning "say what another has said" is from 1590s. As an emphatic word in radio broadcasts, 1938. Meaning "do over again" is from 1550s; specific meaning "to take a course of education over again" is recorded from 1945, American English. Related: Repeated; repeating.

repeat

mid-15c., of music passages, from repeat (v.). From 1937 of broadcasts.

Wiktionary
repeat

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 transitive intransitive English) To do or say again (and again).

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WordNet
repeat

  1. n. an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's" [syn: repetition]

  2. v. to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell]

  3. make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, replicate]

  4. happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story" [syn: recur]

  5. to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders" [syn: echo]

  6. do over; "They would like to take it over again" [syn: take over]

  7. repeat an earlier theme of a composition [syn: reprise, reprize, recapitulate]

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Wikipedia
Repeat

Repeat may refer to:

  • A rerun in broadcasting
  • The unit of pattern in a wallpaper, for example every 24 inches of a roll
  • Repeat sign in music
  • Repeat Records
  • Repeat - The Best of Jethro Tull - Vol II
  • "Repeat" (David Guetta song)
  • A repeat until loop in the Pascal programming language
  • An artillery procedure word to repeat a previous fire mission, replaced with the phrase " say again" in military radio procedure.
Repeat (David Guetta song)

"Repeat" is a song by French DJ David Guetta, featuring vocals from British recording artist Jessie J. Written by Jessie J, The Invisible Men, Ali Tennant, David Guetta, Giorgio Tuinfort, Frédéric Riesterer and produced by Guetta, Tuinfort, Riesterer, the song has thus far peaked at number 108 in UK Singles Chart.

Musically, "Repeat" is an mid-tempo pop song, with lyrics that feature Jessie dancing to the beat. Music critics positively reviewed the song, praising Jessie's vocal performance.

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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.