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▪ I. reˈplay, v.|riː-| [re- 5 a.] 1. trans. To play (a match, etc.) again.
1884Truth 13 Mar. 369/2 Under these circumstances..the tie should certainly be replayed. 1898Hoffmann Hoyle's Games Modernized 100 The hand having been replayed. 2. To play (a gramophone record or a tape) again, or to play back; to reproduce (what has been recorded).
1922Daily Mail 18 Nov. 8 Each instrument is fitted with our special ‘Repeater’ which automatically replays records when desired without the operator's attention. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 241 Tape which is replayed on the same head as was used for recording does not exhibit faults which would be at once apparent if the tape were replayed on most other machines. 1973Sci. Amer. Jan. 117/1 We could replay the recorded sounds at leisure as many times as necessary to make an accurate comparison with the frequencies of our standard disk. 1973L. Cooper Tea on Sunday xi. 93 He recalled the people... So often by running the first interviews through again as if they were a section of a film being replayed he picked up some clue. 1976Dexter & Makins Testkill 140 One of Byron's cover drives, replayed later on TV in slow motion as a textbook stroke. 1977Rolling Stone 19 May 96/2 The Betamax enables you to record (on tape) your favourite TV programs for replaying later. Hence reˈplayed ppl. a.
1892Pall Mall G. 15 Feb. 1/3 Replayed matches will not add to the..list of fixtures. ▪ II. replay, n.|ˈriːpleɪ| 1. A replayed match.
1895Westm. Gaz. 6 May 7/2 Mr. Tait last week took 83 (on a re-play). 1932St. George's Hosp. Gaz. XXVIII. 25 The re-play took place at Chiswick House, St. Thomas's winning by 7 wickets. 1947Sporting Mirror 7 Nov. p. iii/1 They reached the Junior Cup Final, but after a drawn game at Maidenhead, lost the replay to Reading Albion. 1951Sport 27 Jan.–2 Feb. 4/3 Sunderland were the visitors to St. James' Park in a 6th round replay. 1966Listener 20 Jan. 88/2 The less exhausted players and survivors of replays in the interminable F.A. Cup. 1978Morecambe Guardian 14 Mar. 10/2 In the old days, Chorley were Morecambe's traditional cup rivals and the Shrimps will do well even if they force a replay. 2. The action or an instance of replaying a sound recording, piece of film, etc. Freq. attrib., denoting equipment used for this.
1953E. S. Gardner Case of Green-Eyed Sister viii. 117 You had insisted on a replay of the tape. 1958S. Ellin Eighth Circle ii. xvii. 132 He put Berrigan's ‘I Can't Get Started’ on the phonograph and set it for replay. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio vii. 130 The facilities for mixing—requiring two replay decks in addition to a mixer and recorder—are generally beyond the scope of the amateur. 1972Guardian 24 Aug. 10/1 It would have been helpful if an echo machine could have produced for the President a replay of his acceptance speech in the same hall four years ago. 1974Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer 13 Oct. c. 2/1 The scoreboards will be placed on each side and the instant replay screens at each end. 1975O. Sela Bengali Inheritance xv. 124 Now get the mike connected...He..pressed the replay tab. 1976Daily Tel. 16 July 3/3 A video⁓tape machine is to be used by London Transport to run ‘replays’ of violence at underground stations. 1978S. Brett Amateur Corpse xv. 137 Gerald spooled through till nearly the end of the tape... The replay button was pressed. 3. transf. and fig.
1975P. Fussell Great War ix. 317 And the economic ruin uncompleted by the Great War was finished by the Second, which necessitated a replay, but much magnified, of immense indebtedness to the United States. 1976W. H. Canaway Willow-Pattern War xv. 153, I lay awake..doing an involuntary replay of that horrible dream. 1977Time 30 May 20/2 As Poland approaches the first anniversary of the 1976 riots, an occasion that could invite a replay of last year's protest, the Party Chief is under pressure from Moscow to keep the lid on dissent. 1977D. Anthony Stud Game xxiii. 142 Dusty Gordon's party would be a replay of the Hollywood parties Paul Sherwood had dragged me to. |