repeat

Forms

1.To do or say again (and again).
- The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.
- I'll tell you my secret, but first promise me you won't repeat it to anyone else!
- I don't mind talking about the incident, but one gets tired of repeating themself after the hundredth time.
2.To refill (a prescription).
- Could you please repeat what you just said?
- Could you please repeat that?
3.To happen again; recur.
- A day like that has not yet repeated itself.
4.To echo the words of (a person).
- Their rationale with repeating me was that the prior program had not been of sufficient quality to teach me the error of my ways.

1.An iteration; a repetition.
- We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
- "You have just sent a telegram to Brookbend Cottage," he said to the young lady behind the brasswork lattice. "We think it may have come inaccurately and should like a repeat."
2.A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
3.A refill of a prescription.
4.A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).

Common· #1750

From Middle English repeten

From Old French repeter

From Latin repetō

From the prefix re- (“again”) + petō (“to attack, beseech”).