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Repeat   /rɪpˈit/  /ripˈit/   Listen
verb
Repeat  v. t.  (past & past part. repeated; pres. part. repeating)  
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." "Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish."
2.
To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. (Obs.)
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.
Synonyms: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See Reiterate.


noun
Repeat  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.





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"Repeat" Quotes from Famous Books



... and his failures. Of the conversations reported of him by writers I do not believe a syllable. He speaks very little; and, luckily for him, that little only with those on whose integrity he can rely not to repeat him. ...
— Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General - Originally Published In Blackwood's Magazine - 1864 • Charles Lever
... ambassadress, Mrs. Boulger?" and she had replied that, No, she seldom left Florence, and hadn't been to Rome for more than a day since the Boulgers had been sent to Italy. She was so used to these phrases that it cost her no effort to repeat them. And the captain ...
— Autres Temps... - 1916 • Edith Wharton
... Athenian tragedy is never completely told; it is implied, or, to repeat the expression used above, it is illustrated by a selected scene or scenes. And the further we go back the truer this is," continues Dr. Verrall; and the same was doubtless true of sculpture and painting. It is impossible ...
— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore
... were now forlorn and melancholy, yet we loved to wander in what were once his favorite haunts. Louisa forbore to mention my brother even to me, but frequently, when she thought herself unobserved, she would steal to her harpsichord, and repeat the strain which she had played on ...
— A Sicilian Romance • Ann Radcliffe
... translation of the "Iliad" I have given my views as to the main principles by which a translator should be guided, and need not repeat them here, beyond pointing out that the initial liberty of translating poetry into prose involves the continual taking of more or less liberty throughout the translation; for much that is right in poetry is wrong ...
— The Odyssey • Homer


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