# repeat

Pronunciation: say "ri-PEET" US /ɹɪˈpit/, UK /ɹɪˈpiːt/

## Verb

1. To do or say something again, often more than once.
   - Simple: To do or say something more than one time.
   - _Could you repeat that last point? I missed it._
   - _The teacher repeated the key formula until everyone wrote it down._
2. To happen again; to occur once more.
   - Simple: To happen again, after happening once before.
   - _Economic crises tend to repeat in roughly predictable cycles._
   - _The pattern repeated three times before anyone noticed._
5. To say again the words that someone else has spoken.
   - Simple: To say again what another person has just said.
   - _The interpreter repeated the witness faithfully, word for word._
   - _Toddlers repeat adults constantly as they learn to talk._
7. To dispense a further supply of a prescribed medication under an existing authorization.
   - Simple: To fill a prescription again so a patient gets more medicine.
   - _The pharmacist repeated the prescription without needing a fresh order._
   - _Pharmacists may repeat certain medications up to the limit the doctor set._
10. To commit electoral fraud by casting more than one vote for the same candidate.
   - Simple: To cheat in an election by voting more than once for the same person.
   - _Operatives bused supporters between wards to repeat throughout the day._
   - _Several men were jailed for repeating in the disputed mayoral race._
11. Of a watch or clock, to sound the hours by striking, especially on demand.
   - Simple: Of a clock or watch, to chime the hour when you press a button.
   - _The antique watch will repeat whenever its slide is pressed._
   - _Older chiming clocks repeat through the small hours._
12. To call for a previous artillery fire mission again, with the same ammunition and method, on the same or adjusted coordinates, because the target was missed or not destroyed.
   - Simple: In the army, to ask the big guns to fire the same shots again because the target was not hit well enough.
   - _When the target survived the first salvo, the forward observer called to repeat._
   - _"Bunker still standing. Right 50, repeat, over," the observer told the fire-direction center._
13. To repay or refund an amount received in excess. *(dialectal, Scotland)*
   - Simple: In law, to pay back money that was received but should not have been.
   - _The judgment required the trustee to repeat the sums wrongly drawn from the estate._
   - _The defendant repeated the overpayment once liability was established._

## Noun

3. An instance of something occurring or being done again.
   - Simple: A time when something is done or shown again.
   - _The concert was a near-exact repeat of their opening night._
   - _Officials hoped to avoid a repeat of last year's flooding._
4. A television program broadcast again after its first showing.
   - Simple: A TV show that is played again after its first time on air.
   - _The channel filled its summer schedule with repeats of old dramas._
   - _She caught a repeat of the finale she had missed._
6. A renewed supply of a medication dispensed under an existing prescription.
   - Simple: A new supply of medicine you get without a new prescription.
   - _Her prescription came with five repeats to last the year._
   - _He requested a repeat before his medication ran out._
8. A notation mark instructing performers to play a section of music a second time.
   - Simple: A sign in written music that tells you to play a part again.
   - _The score had a repeat after the chorus, so they played it twice._
   - _She marked a repeat in the second movement for the rehearsal._
9. A sequence of nucleic acids occurring in multiple copies throughout a genome, or of amino acids within a protein.
   - Simple: A short string of genetic code that appears many times in DNA.
   - _The team sequenced a repeat that recurs thousands of times across the chromosome._
   - _Expansion of a single repeat underlies several neurodegenerative disorders._

## Verb

14. To undergo or encounter something again; to make trial of once more. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To go through or try something difficult again.

## Origin

From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere, formed from the prefix re- ("again") plus peto ("attack, beseech").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/repeat (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).