REPEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repeat mean? 

• REPEAT (noun)
  The noun REPEAT has 1 sense:

1. an event that repeats

  Familiarity information: REPEAT used as a noun is very rare.

• REPEAT (verb)
  The verb REPEAT has 6 senses:

1. to say, state, or perform again

2. make or do or perform again

3. happen or occur again

4. to say again or imitate

5. do over

6. repeat an earlier theme of a composition

  Familiarity information: REPEAT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An event that repeats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

repeat; repetition

Context example:

the events today were a repeat of yesterday's

Hypernyms ("repeat" is a kind of...):

periodic event; recurrent event (an event that recurs at intervals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repeat"):

cycle (a periodically repeated sequence of events)

rematch; replay (something (especially a game) that is played again)

recurrence; return (happening again (especially at regular intervals))

sequence (several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys)

Derivation:

repeat (to say, state, or perform again)

repeat (repeat an earlier theme of a composition)

repeat (make or do or perform again)

repeat (do over)

repeat (happen or occur again)

• REPEAT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they repeat    ... he / she / it repeats   
Past simple: repeated   
Past participle: repeated   
-ing form: repeating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To say, state, or perform again

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell

Context example:

She kept reiterating her request

Hypernyms (to "repeat" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "repeat"):

perseverate (psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus)

ditto (repeat an action or statement)

dwell; harp (come back to)

interpret; render; translate (restate (words) from one language into another language)

paraphrase; rephrase; reword (express the same message in different words)

resume; sum up; summarise; summarize (give a summary (of))

cite; quote (repeat a passage from)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They won't repeat the story

Derivation:

repetition (the act of doing or performing again)

repeat (an event that repeats)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make or do or perform again

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

double; duplicate; reduplicate; repeat; replicate

Context example:

He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick

Hypernyms (to "repeat" is one way to...):

reproduce (make a copy or equivalent of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "repeat"):

copy; replicate (reproduce or make an exact copy of)

recapitulate (repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life)

geminate; reduplicate (form by reduplication)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

repeat (an event that repeats)

repeater (someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior))

repeater (a person who repeats)

repeating; repetition (the act of doing or performing again)

repetitive (repetitive and persistent)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Happen or occur again

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

recur; repeat

Context example:

This is a recurring story

Hypernyms (to "repeat" is one way to...):

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "repeat"):

iterate (run or be performed again)

cycle (recur in repeating sequences)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

repeat; repetition (an event that repeats)

repetitive (repetitive and persistent)

repetitive (characterized by repetition)

Sense 4

Meaning:

To say again or imitate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

echo; repeat

Context example:

followers echoing the cries of their leaders

Hypernyms (to "repeat" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "repeat"):

regurgitate; reproduce (repeat after memorization)

parrot (repeat mindlessly)

reecho (repeat back like an echo)

cuckoo (repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call)

recite (repeat aloud from memory)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 5

Meaning:

Do over

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

repeat; take over

Context example:

They would like to take it over again

Hypernyms (to "repeat" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

repeat (an event that repeats)

repeater (a person who repeats)

repetitive (characterized by repetition)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Repeat an earlier theme of a composition

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

recapitulate; repeat; reprise; reprize

Hypernyms (to "repeat" is one way to...):

play; spiel (replay (as a melody))

Domain category:

music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

repeat (an event that repeats)

 Context examples 

“Miss Elizabeth Bennet!” repeated Miss Bingley.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"It is over! it is over!" she repeated to herself again and again, in nervous gratitude.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Ankyrin repeat domain-containing protein 30A (1397 aa, ~159 kDa) is encoded by the human ANKRD30A gene.

(Ankyrin Repeat Domain-Containing Protein 30A, NCI Thesaurus)

Expression of these antibodies is thought to be induced by (repeated) drug administration.

(Anti-Drug Antibody, NCI Thesaurus)

TP53BP2 contains ankyrin repeats and an SH3 domain, required for interaction with p53 and BCL2; TP53BP2 cannot bind both proteins simultaneously.

(Apoptosis-Stimulating of p53 Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)

After breakfast Mina repeated her question.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“The very picture of him indeed!” cried the mother—and “I should have known her anywhere for his sister!” was repeated by them all, two or three times over.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Ankyrin repeat and BTB/POZ domain-containing protein 2 (839 aa, ~93 kDa) is encoded by the human ABTB2 gene.

(Ankyrin Repeat and BTB/POZ Domain-Containing Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)

There is—I repeat it—a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Thrice he tried to knock him over, then repeated the trick and broke the right fore leg.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)