/ɹɪpiˈts/ - [ripeets] -
We found 3 definitions of repeats from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: repeats |
||
repeat - an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's" | ||
repetition | ||
periodic event, recurrent event an event that recurs at intervals | ||
sequence film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie | ||
cycle a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon; "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons" | ||
rematch, replay the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape | ||
Verb |
||
repeat - to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" | ||
reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell | ||
tell discern or comprehend; "He could tell that she was unhappy" | ||
perseverate psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus; "The subjects in this study perseverated" | ||
ditto repeat an action or statement; "The next speaker dittoed her argument" | ||
harp, dwell come back to; "Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things" | ||
interpret, translate, render make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?" | ||
paraphrase, rephrase, reword express the same message in different words | ||
summarise, summarize, sum up, resume be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" | ||
quote, cite put quote marks around; "Here the author is quoting his colleague" | ||
repeat - to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders" | ||
echo | ||
let loose, emit, let out, utter expel (gases or odors) | ||
recite repeat aloud from memory; "she recited a poem"; "The pupil recited his lesson for the day" | ||
cuckoo repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call | ||
reecho repeat back like an echo | ||
parrot repeat mindlessly; "The students parroted the teacher's words" | ||
regurgitate, reproduce repeat after memorization; "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information" | ||
repeat - do over; "They would like to take it over again" | ||
take over | ||
act, move behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" | ||
repeat - make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" | ||
duplicate, reduplicate, double, replicate | ||
reproduce have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant; "The Bible tells people to procreate" | ||
replicate, copy reproduce or make an exact copy of; "replicate the cell"; "copy the genetic information" | ||
recapitulate summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas" | ||
reduplicate, geminate form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word" | ||
repeat - happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story" | ||
recur | ||
come about, hap, take place, occur, fall out, go on, happen, pass off, pass come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her" | ||
iterate run or be performed again; "the function iterates" | ||
cycle recur in repeating sequences | ||
repeat - repeat an earlier theme of a composition | ||
reprise, reprize, recapitulate | ||
spiel, play speak at great length (about something) | ||
music musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest" |