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repeat English

Meaning repeat meaning

What does repeat mean?
Definitions in simple English

repeat Verb

— If you repeat something, you do it again. I don't want to have to repeat typing this. If you fail the class you will have to repeat it. That song is not good because it just repeats the same words. — If something repeats or is repeated it is done more than once, or there is more than one of it. The flashing light just keeps repeating. The war was very bad, I hope history doesn't repeat with another like it. The words "No show hello" repeat through the whole song. — If you repeat yourself, you say something you just said again. I already told you what to do, don't make me repeat myself.

repeat Noun

— An instruction to repeat something. Usually this is used for music in part of a song. Sometimes it may be used for other things like part of a computer program. — Something this has been repeated; that is a repetition.

repeat

— verb (= reiterate) to say, state, or perform again She kept reiterating her request — verb (= replicate) make or do or perform again He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick — verb (= recur) happen or occur again This is a recurring story — verb (= echo) to say again or imitate followers echoing the cries of their leaders — verb do over They would like to take it over again — noun an event that repeats the events today were a repeat of yesterday's — verb repeat an earlier theme of a composition

Synonyms repeat synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as repeat?

repeat English » English

reiterate duplicate do again double repetition recite restate say again retell again iterate recur rehearse recapitulate ingeminate echo return reproduce replicate reprise replay review redo once more utter take over rerun reprize renew remake reiteration reduplicate chant add urge revise restore reshowing renovate redouble order repeatedly iteration instruct explicitly insist firmly imitate happen again go over geminate exercise double-cross

Topics repeat topics

What do people use repeat to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Repeat
States Time Relative time Order, sequence

Alternate
States Time Aspectual time Once

Again

Conjugation repeat conjugation

How do you conjugate repeat?

repeat · verb

Examples repeat examples

How do I use repeat in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Could you repeat that?
Let's not repeat the same mistakes we made before.
Repeat what you just said.
I don't want to repeat myself.
Could you please repeat that?
Could you repeat that, please?
Can you repeat that, please?
Could you please repeat it slowly?
Do you think something like that will repeat itself?
Mr Wilson made us repeat the sentence several times.
Repeat each sentence after me.
Please repeat after me.
I'm sorry, could you repeat that please?
Can you repeat what you said?
Repeat what I have just told you.
Repeat after me.

Movie subtitles

Repeat: an emergency call to the base in Noah.
I repeat..
I repeat priority evacuation confirmed.
But now with my new GPS, there will be no repeat.
I was ordered to return this and ask you not to repeat such misdeeds.
We shall be quite ready to repeat it in her presence, but. we want to do as little harm as possible. oh.
Let's repeat the etiquette lesson.
Yes, we could repeat a lesson in in er. petty.
Repeat that.
Will you repeat that, please? The men might be in charge.
I repeat, sir. I fought with Wilfred Glendon, a werewolf.
I told you how charming and how lovely you were and I'd still repeat it, but I didn't do anything.
I only. - Repeat the last word.
Repeat that!
Repeat after me.
Will you please repeat that?
Repeat that again, please.
Of course I wont repeat it.
I will repeat it. You're a mutinous dog.
I repeat, sir.
I repeat, who are you?
Very well. I'll repeat our plan of attack.
Nevertheless, I must repeat that my logic was perfect.
There is no point to have them repeat what everyone knows, that I suffered for my country and that I'm an honest man.
Do you think you could bear to repeat it for me? I'll try.
I will not repeat your mistake.
Please repeat your confession in the presence of the accused.
I repeat, demonstrations during holidays are prohibited.
AND REPEAT.
PRIEST: Repeat after me.
Now, take Gerald's hand and repeat after me.
Hold it there and repeat after me.
DOCTOR: I repeat, Mrs. Corbett.
I repeat my request.
Would the thing, the miracle repeat itself the next night?
A what? Repeat that!
Repeat that?
You repeat yourself.

News and current affairs

They will stress that if the lessons of history are not learned, history is bound to repeat itself.
In a recent speech to the French defense industry, Sarkozy conspicuously failed to repeat the pledge, instead warning that he soon might cut France's defense budget.
This could help to avoid a repeat of Iran's experiences after its 1979 revolution, when contracts for fuel and technology for its planned nuclear power program were not honored.
Sad to say, Japan continues to teach us that some of history's most painful episodes do repeat themselves.
Worse than that, at least until recently, a committee evaluating an economist would likely think that writing a popular economics book that does not repeat the received wisdom of the discipline might even be professionally unethical.
The damage to Russia's economic growth prospects from the Yukos affair may yet prove temporary, barring a repeat performance with other companies.
Will it really be necessary for Ukrainians to repeat the Orange Revolution by again gathering in their millions to shame Yanukovych (a twice convicted violent felon before he entered politics) to change course?
But is reprogenetics simply a new and more powerful vehicle to repeat the abhorrent eugenic practices of the past?
Hardliners in Israel naturally regret the end of the Bush administration, for they know that, even if President Barack Obama does not dramatically change US policy toward Israel once he assumes power, he will not repeat Bush's unconditional support.
President Jiang returned recently to that global gathering of business leaders but, thankfully, a repeat of that appeasement did not occur.
The world cannot afford to repeat that performance.
Yes, the chances of an immediate repeat of the acute financial meltdown of 2008 are much reduced by the fact that most investors, regulators, consumers, and even politicians will remember their financial near-death experience for quite some time.
The fear, as IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has reminded us, is of a repeat of previous episodes, notably in 1982 and 1994, when the Fed's policy tightening helped precipitate financial crises in developing countries.
Drug companies often lament that the firms from which they are sourcing innovations do not perform clinical trials to their specifications, forcing them to repeat the work.
Given these historical analogies, a slew of heavyweight Keynesian critics are warning that the world is about to repeat all the disasters caused by bad fiscal policy in the 1930's.
Doing everything possible to avoid a repeat of the 1989 scenario may well be the Communist Party leadership's top priority in 2009.
PRINCETON - Today, the world is threatened with a repeat of the 2008 financial meltdown - but on an even more cataclysmic scale.
Even when China's voice could be decisive in resolving crises or preventing bloodshed, instead of acting, its diplomats repeat the old platitudes about non-interference.
The president had hoped to repeat his role as Great Campaigner in previous elections, and so personally led his own campaign, ignoring criticism that he was unfairly taking advantage of the powers of his office.
For example, instead of dismissing Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's boasts of victory, many commentators around the world repeat and endorse his claim that Hezbollah fought much more bravely than the regular soldiers of Arab states in previous wars.
Will it repeat the Algerian tragedy, in which the military canceled an election to prevent Islamists from assuming power, leading to an eight-year civil war that claimed up to 200,000 lives?
But mass atrocity crimes did happen in Sri Lanka, there was moral default all around, and if we do not learn from this past, we will indeed be condemned to repeat it.
With the United States government staring at the long-term costs of the financial bailout, as well as inexorably rising entitlement costs, shouldn't the Chinese worry about a repeat of Europe's experience from the 1970's?
Forgetting that history might doom China to repeat the mistakes of the past; but, for better or worse, it might also ease constraints and set its leaders free.

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