'Repeat' definitions:
Definition of 'repeat'
(from WordNet)
noun
An event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's" [syn: repeat, repetition]
verb
To say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell]
verb
Make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]
verb
Happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story" [syn: recur, repeat]
verb
To say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders" [syn: repeat, echo]
verb
Do over; "They would like to take it over again" [syn: repeat, take over]
verb
Definition of 'Repeat'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 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). [1913 Webster]
- Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. [Obs.] --Waller. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received). [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See Reiterate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Repeat'
From: GCIDE
- Repeat \Re*peat"\ (r?-p?t"), n.
- 1. The act of repeating; repetition. [1913 Webster]
- 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.). [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'repeat'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act like,
- affect,
- alternate,
- assume,
- be here again,
- bis,
- bob,
- borrow,
- burden,
- chant,
- chime,
- chorus,
- circle,
- come again,
- come and go,
- come around,
- come round,
- come round again,
- come up again,
- commit to memory,
- con,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- crib,
- cycle,
- din,
- ditto,
- do,
- do a repeat,
- do again,
- do like,
- do over,
- double,
- dupe,
- duplicate,
- duplication,
- echo,
- encore,
- fake,
- forge,
- geminate,
- get by heart,
- get letter-perfect,
- go back,
- go like,
- harp,
- hash over,
- have by heart,
- hoke,
- hoke up,
- imitate,
- ingeminate,
- intermit,
- iterate,
- keep coming,
- know by heart,
- learn by heart,
- learn verbatim,
- make like,
- make over,
- memorize,
- mirror,
- multiply by two,
- oscillate,
- parrot,
- plagiarize,
- pulsate,
- pulse,
- quote,
- re-create,
- re-form,
- reappear,
- rebroadcast,
- rebuild,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- recite,
- reconstitute,
- reconstruct,
- recount,
- recur,
- redesign,
- redo,
- redouble,
- reduplicate,
- reecho,
- reestablish,
- refashion,
- reflect,
- refound,
- refrain,
- regenerate,
- regurgitate,
- rehash,
- rehearse,
- reincarnate,
- reinstitute,
- reissue,
- reiterate,
- relate,
- remake,
- renew,
- renovate,
- reoccur,
- reorganize,
- repeat by heart,
- repeat performance,
- repetend,
- repetition,
- replay,
- replaying,
- replica,
- replicate,
- replication,
- reprint,
- reprise,
- reproduce,
- reproduction,
- rerun,
- resay,
- reshape,
- resound,
- restate,
- restore,
- restructure,
- resume,
- resurrect,
- retell,
- return,
- return match,
- reverberate,
- revert,
- revise,
- revive,
- revolve,
- ring,
- ritornello,
- roll around,
- rotate,
- say again,
- simulate,
- study,
- swot up,
- turn,
- twin,
- undersong,
- undulate,
- wheel,
- wheel around