 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
repeat
noun: an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of
yesterday's" [syn: {repetition}]
verb
1: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her
request" [syn: {reiterate}, {ingeminate}, {iterate}, {restate},
{retell}]
2: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his
brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: {duplicate},
{reduplicate}, {double}, {replicate}]
3: happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story" [syn: {recur}]
4: to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of
their leaders" [syn: {echo}]
5: do over; "They would like to take it over again" [syn: {take
over}]
6: repeat an earlier theme of a composition [syn: {reprise}, {reprize},
{recapitulate}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Repeat \Re*peat"\ (r?-p?t"), noun
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Repeat \Re*peat"\ (-p?t"), verb (used with an object) [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}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
149 Moby Thesaurus words for "repeat":
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
repeat
{repeat loop}
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