Meaning of repeat in English

repeat

verb

/rɪˈpiːt/ us

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A2 [ T ]

to say or tell people something more than once:

Would you mind repeating what you just said?

repeat something to someone Please don't repeat what I've just told you to anyone else.

[ + that ] She repeated that she had no intention of running for president.

A2 [ I or T ]

to happen, or to do something, more than once:

The test must be repeated several times.

This is an offer never to be repeated.

Johnny had to repeat a year/class at school.

repeat itself Some historians think that history repeats itself.

[ T or I ] music specialized

to perform part of a piece of music more than once:

Fischer repeats the section with added decoration.

This additional feature is present each time the phrase is repeated.

After this, the piano part repeats without a break.

repeat yourself

to say the same thing again, or the same things again and again:

His speech was dreadful - he just kept repeating himself.

Do stop me if I'm repeating myself.

She's forgetful and often repeats herself.

He lost the thread of what he was saying and ended up repeating himself.

She kept it up for over an hour and never once repeated herself.

At times he seemed distracted and repeated himself.

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Sorry, could you repeat that? This is a very bad connection.
Don't mix up the bottles - you'll have to repeat the experiment if you do.
The medical tests were inconclusive, and will need to be repeated.
I find myself endlessly repeating the same phrases.
Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past?

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repeat

noun [ C ]

/rɪˈpiːt/ us

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a situation in which something happens or is done more than once:

repeat performance All this is a repeat/a repeat performance of what happened last year.

a television or radio programme that is broadcast again:

There's nothing but repeats on television these days.

music specialized

part of a piece of music that is performed more than once:

The repeat comes in bars 46–57, and then the slow movement continues.

Only the horns play the first repeat of the melody.

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repeat

verb [ T ]

/rɪˈpit/

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to say, tell, or do something again:

She repeated the question.

Listen to the tape and repeat each word.

repeat

noun [ C ] us

/rɪˈpit, ˈri·pit/

We’re hoping to avoid a repeat of last year’s disaster.

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The introduction sets out the background and methodology of the research and repeats some of the important caveats about qualitative attitude research.

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One of these studies was repeated over four rice crops.

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Therefore, by repeated application of the rules the input types are reduced to a normal form.

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The balloon catheter was replaced by the end-hole catheter and angiography repeated.

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Among the reply-types considered are expansions, repeats, recasts, and requests for clarification.

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We can repeat this argument to construct infinitely many equilibrium paths and, therefore, the original equilibrium is said to be indeterminate.

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The writing credit was repeated at the end, along with the acting and technical credits.

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For instance, the text should not repeat in detail what is evident from the tables or diagrams.

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These systems operate actively over many repeated hearings.

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Then all these parametric variations will be repeated at a larger fill factor by lowering the quadrupole-focusing gradient.

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Although she repeated this several times, the teacher and the other students ignored her.

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This zone is characterized by evidence for a succession of events that, taken together, suggest a history of continuing, repeated strike-slip.

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This issue could be examined by repeating the study using different tasks that engaged the same set of cognitive processes.

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The refinement step absorbs repeated application of the same rules by performing the sequence of transitions in one single jump.

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He further repeats the tired official lie that war veterans engineered the subsequent farm invasions.

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