repeatern.
/rᵻˈpiːtə/, U.S. /rəˈpidər/, /riˈpidər/ΘΚΠ
society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > trainer
repeater1580
drill1814
driller1830
1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 914 In hys Chappel he hadde a Deane..: a Subdeane: a Repeater of the Quire [etc.].
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Repetitore, a repeater, a rehearser, an Vsher of a schoole.
2. † b. A preacher of a repetition sermon (see repetition n.1 Compounds 2); a repetitioner. Obsolete.
a. A person who repeats something heard or learned; a relater, reciter.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > narrator
teller1340
expositora1398
accounterc1400
reporterc1405
provinoura1475
recounter1485
relator1588
relater1598
repeater1598
narrator1599
retailer1607
nomenclator1628
enarrator1632
accountant1655
relatist1656
narrater1758
narratrix1796
narratress1798
the mind > language > speech > repetition > [noun] > one who repeats
cuckoo1581
repeater1598
battologist1653
repetitioner?1720
repetitionist1815
echoer1823
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Ripitore,..a repeater or relator of a matter.
1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 121 More repeaters of their popular Oratorious vehemencies, than urgers and confirmers of their argumentative strength.
1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 2nd sig. A4v A great repeater of Proverbs, which he blunders out upon all occasions, tho never so absurd, or far from the purpose.
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber v. 75 Some great author, whose sense is deeper than the repeater's understanding.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 18/2 There is another very peculiar kind of delivery sometimes used in the person of a repeater.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I xxviii. 17 The hearers of her case became repeaters, Then advocates, inquisitors, and judges.
1893 F. M. Müller in J. H. Barrows Word's Parl. Relig. II. 936 Thus only can we use the words..not as thoughtless repeaters, but as honest thinkers and believers.
1926 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 46 211 No such care ever bothered the repeaters of epic verse any more than today it worries the repeaters of popular quotations.
1994 V. Unruh Lat. Amer. Vanguards iii. 147 A parrot is not a creator but a repeater of the words of another.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > of repetition sermon
repetitionera1662
repeater1672
1672 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 96 Repeaters—1661, Thomas Tomkins, All [Souls] C[ollege].
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 817 In 1665 he was the Repeater or Repetitioner in S. Maries Church on Low Sunday, of the four Easter Sermons, which being admirably well performed, all to a word memoriter, without any hesitation, he obtained a great esteem among the Academians.
1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 373 The Repeater of the four Easter-Sermons at St. Maries was Mr. Francis Bagshaw.
1719 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1906) VII. 29 Before I came to Oxford, he was Repeater of ye Easter Sermons, & came off well.
3. Mathematics. = recurring decimal n. at recurring adj. Compounds. Also: a digit that is repeated in a recurring decimal. Now chiefly U.S.
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the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > fraction > [noun] > decimal > recurring
repetend1714
repeater1721
interminate decimal1728
recurring decimal1748
circulate1769
circulating decimal1838
recurrer1875
1721 E. Hatton Intire Syst. Arithm. iii. 145 In Example 4. there being two Decimals consisting of repeating Decimals..put down 4, and carry 4 to the third Series, which makes it 39, and the 6 and 9 Repeaters is 54.
1773 Encycl. Brit. I. 397/2 Pure repeaters take their rise from vulgar fractions whose denominator is 3, or its multiple 9.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iv. 46/2 Do what one will, there is ever a cursed fraction, oftenest a decimal repeater.
1882 F. J. Bramwell Making & Working Channel Tunnel 2 A fraction containing probably six places of decimals and some repeaters.
1933 Math. News Let. 8 9 Perfect decimal repeaters occur only among those rational proper fractions which have a prime number p for denominator.
2001 R. Glasson et al. Targeting Math. (2007) 115 The dot above the 3 (?) means ‘repeater’. The 3 will go on for ever.
2008 A.Humez On the Dot viii. 99 Most decimal fractions look sesquipedalian, even those that aren't repeaters, relative to their whole-number ratios.
4.
a. A repeating watch or clock.minute, quarter-repeater: see the first element.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock
watch-clock1592
German clock1598
quarter clocka1631
wheel-clock1671
table clocka1684
month clock1712
astronomical clock1719
musical clock1721
repeater1725
Tompion1727
pulling clock1733
regulator1735
eight-day clock1741
regulator clock1750
French clock1757
repetition clock1765
day clock1766
striker1778
chiming clock1789
cuckoo-clock1789
night clock1823
telltale1827
carriage clock1828
fly-clock1830
steeple clock1830
telltale clock1832
skeleton clock1842
telegraph clock1842
star clock1850
weight-clock1850
prison clock1853
crystal clock1854
pillar scroll top clock1860
sheep's-head clock1872
presentation clock1875
pillar clock1880
stop-clock1881
Waterbury1882
calendar-clock1884
ting-tang clock1884
birdcage clock1886
sheep's head1887
perpetual calendar1892
bracket clock1894
Act of Parliament clock1899
cartel clock1899
banjo-clock1903
master clock1904
lantern clock1913
time clock1919
evolutionary clock1922
lancet clock1922
atomic clock1927
quartz clock1934
clock radio1946
real-time clock1953
organ clock1956
molecular clock1974
travelling clock2014
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > particular types of watch
German watch1611
larum watch1619
clock-watch1625
minute watch1660
pendulum watch1664
watch1666
alarm watch1669
finger watch1679
string-watch1686
scout1688
balance-watch1690
hour-watch1697
warming-pan1699
minute pendulum watch1705
jewel watch1711
suit1718
repeater1725
Tompion1727
pendulum spring1728
second-watch1755
Geneva watch1756
cylinder-watch1765
watch-paper1777
ring watch1788
verge watch1792
watch lamp1823
hack1827
bull's-eye1833
vertical watch1838
quarter-repeater1840
turnip1840
hunting-watch1843
minute repeater1843
hunter1851
job watch1851
Geneva1852
watch-lining1856
touch watch1860
musical watch1864
lever1865
neep1866
verge1871
independent seconds watch1875
stem-winder1875
demi-hunter1884
fob-watch1884
three-quarter plate1884
wrist-watch1897
turnip-watch1898
sedan-chair watch1904
Rolex1922
Tank watch1923
strap watch1926
chatelaine watch1936
sedan clock1950
quartz watch1969
pulsar1970
1725 C. Mordaunt Let. in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) vii. 141 It [sc. a watch] is a silent Repeator.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. vii. 290 She did further rob the said right hon. &c. of a large purse of money, his gold repeater, snuff~box, diamond-ring.
1788 C. Smith Emmeline IV. xii. 278 Her slumber was imperfect; and suddenly awaking at some fancied noise, she pressed her repeater, and found it was half past three o'clock.
1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol ii. 39 He touched the spring of his repeater, to correct this most preposterous clock.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 203 Repeater racks..should be..polished underhand.
1904 ‘H. Foulis’ Erchie vii. 41 ‘Whit is't, my dawtie, and ye'll get it to break?’ Mr Carnegie 'll say, and lift her on his knee, and let her play wi' the works o' his twa thoosand pound repeater watch.
1973 P. O'Brian H.M.S. Surprise iv. 81 He pressed the button of his repeater, and in a lull of the wind the little silvery bell struck four and then three for the quarters.
1999 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 17 Jan. 6 When repeaters come to auction, open-faced, early 20th century examples go for as little as $ 2,000 to $ 3,000.
b. Nautical. A ship which reproduces an admiral's signals in order to pass instructions to other vessels. Also more fully repeater ship. Now historical and rare.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > ship which repeats signals
repeater1782
1782 S. Hood Let. 30 Apr. (1895) 135 Sir George..took the Eurydice, Admiral Drake's repeater, to carry his duplicate despatches.
1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. iii. 86 The signal officers of a repeater had to make out the number of the flag.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Repeaters or Repeating Ships.
1967 A. Preston & J. Major Send Gunboat x. 134 The Admiral kept them in reserve as repeater-ships for signals and for any special task beyond the capabilities of the bigger ships.
c. A repeating firearm; a weapon capable of firing several shots in succession without reloading.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [noun] > type of firearm > repeating or automatic
repeater1838
self-loader1852
automatic1896
autoloader1906
autoloading1906
auto1916
burp gun1945
semi-automatic1964
1838 in Alton (Illinois) Spectator (1839) 3 Jan. 1/1 Repeaters which may be discharged eighteen times without reloading.
1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 27 This rifle is both a breech-loader and a repeater.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Dec. 7/2 The loading of the repeater can be done in four movements.
1912 C. Askins Rifles iii. 25 The lever-action repeater is so familiar to every American who shoots a rifle that a description of its mechanism is uncalled for.
1935 J. S. Lee Underworld of East vii. 45 ‘I've only got a Winchester repeater,’ he said; ‘the bullets are small, but it fires seventeen shots.’
1941 E. T. Seton Trail of Artist-naturalist 271 White men carry a repeater, and fire many shots.
1977 D. Seaman Committee 14 Sedgwick assembled the ·22 Marlin rimfire repeater.
2002 Field & Stream Oct. 100/2 I feel underdressed hunting grouse and woodcock with a repeater.
d. Telecommunications. A device for automatically reproducing signals at an increased strength for onward transmission, as in a telegraph or telephone circuit. Cf. relay n.1 4a.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > repeater or relay
relay1838
repeater1850
translator1855
repeating coil1886
1850 U.S. Patent 7,769 1/1 I construct my double-acting telegraphic repeater by placing two electro-magnets, a a and d d, near each other in the same office.
1870 F. L. Pope Electr. Telegr. (1872) iv. 45 It was formerly customary to reunite the messages at some intermediate station, but this duty is now usually performed by an apparatus called a repeater.
1923 Sci. Amer. Feb. 106/2 The development of the vacuum tube repeaters..put an entirely different aspect on the problems which have confronted the telephone engineer in the past.
1958 Times 1 July 8/3 The idea behind the work now in hand is to make possible the inclusion of submerged repeaters at more frequent intervals along the cable, which would proportionately increase the capacity of the communications system.
2003 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 Oct. r6/3 The signals lose strength over distance when sent out over power lines. This means repeaters have to be added at regular intervals.
e. Railways. A signal indicating the status of another signal which is out of sight. Also more fully repeater signal.
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1859 Brit. Patent 2119 (1860) 1 An improved disc & lantern signal with double repeaters for the purpose of showing those in charge, if the signal has acted properly.
1874 R. C. Rapier On Fixed Signals Railways 61 It would be observed that, by means of the repeater, the signalman knew directly the train had come within the distant signal.
1904 Times 11 May 7/4 He was positive that the electric repeaters of the shunting lines were at danger and that the shunting signal was on.
1963 G. M. Kichenside & A. Williams Brit. Railway Signalling ix. 96 Stop signals..normally show red or green, and repeater signals..show red, yellow, and green.
1991 Mod. Railways Apr. 183/1 The report recommends the provision of a banner repeater signal for signal 168.
1992 S. Hall BR Signalling Handbk. xv. 49/1 Signal light repeaters. These instruments are provided for signals out of the signalman's sight and tell him whether the lights in the signals are in or out.
f. Telecommunications. = relay n.1 4b. Frequently attributive.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > relay or repeater
relay station1838
repeater1905
relay1906
1905 A. F. Collins Wireless Telegr. xv. 195 Guarini automatic repeater... The repeater is absolutely automatic in all its functions, and from the instant the enfeebled radiation from a distant station impinges on the antenna..to the powerful re-energized waves emitted..no human hand is required to assist it.
1936 R.C.A. Rev. 1 26 The modulations are passed on to the distant terminal via the repeater stations.
1959 Aeroplane 97 542/1 (caption) The 500-lb. repeater satellite proposed by the Space Electronics Corporation.
1972 Sci. Amer. Feb. 15/1 Microwaves do not bend with the curvature of the earth, so that for long links it is necessary to use repeaters.
2004 High Country News 16 Feb. 3/1 Martin issued blanket approval for his parks to use helicopters for routine maintenance of trails, backcountry ranger stations, radio repeaters, and for scientific research.
5. Chiefly U.S.
a. A person who illegally votes or attempts to vote more than once at an election. Now historical.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > registering or casting votes > types of voting > one who
plumper1761
faggot voter1818
repeater1862
vest-pocket voter1888
swing vote1966
ticket-splitter1972
tactical voter1974
1862 R. H. Newell Orpheus C. Kerr Papers I. xxxv. 244 This morning..I discovered six Repeaters among my men. Each of them voted six times last election day.
1871 Scribner's Monthly 1 366 Repeaters changed their coats and hats after every vote.
1904 N.Y. Evening Post 7 Nov. 1 The superintendent of elections is authority for the statement that there are gangs of colonizers and repeaters in the city.
2000 Amer. Heritage Nov. 14/3 A place where men were taken and held for days, with the aid of drugs and liquor, until they could vote as repeaters.
b. A person who returns to a place, esp. a hotel, bar, etc., again or repeatedly.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun] > one who > repeatedly
bad halfpenny1819
repeater1872
bad penny1937
1872 Galaxy Mar. 316 Four-fifths are represented by a class known as repeaters, from the fact that they repeat their visits several times each, but still do not become..permanent residents.
1909 H. S. Warner Social Welfare & Liquor Probl. ix. 160 The daily patronage of saloons, counting ‘repeaters’, visitors and people living in the suburbs, was 50 per cent of the total population.
1950 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 25 Feb. b1/2 Cecil B. DeMille, whose picture audiences, counting repeaters, have numbered more people than there are on earth, is 68.
1977 Time 30 May 21/1 By last week the number of visitors had passed 60,000 (including repeaters), even though news accounts of the ‘miracle’ cloth have been spotty.
2008 Jrnl. Rec. (Oklahoma City) (Nexis) 31 Oct. ‘People come all the way from Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri to shop here,’ he said, many being repeaters who just enjoy the experience.
c. A person who is frequently committed to prison. Also: a person who repeats an offence; a recidivist. Cf. repeat offender at repeat n. Compounds 1b.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > one who has been long or often in jail
Newgate bird1580
bridewell bird1590
jail-bird1603
prison-birda1640
old hand1826
repeater1873
old lag1910
loser1912
in-and-out boy1937
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > habitual criminal
old offender1817
hard case1842
recidive1853
recidivist1867
repeater1873
rounder1891
1873 N.-Y. Times 14 Feb. 2/4 A single person had been committed to the Island more than one hundred times!.. If we can contrive..no better system than this, every man of intelligence and wealth among us deserves to be sent to prison..and to have his house occupied by one of these repeaters.
1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps iv. 386 ‘Revolver’ or ‘repeater’, is both a tramp and a criminal term for the professional offender, who is continually being brought up for trial.
1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iv. xix. 382 Most of the repeaters are boys of the gang type.
1977 Time 11 July 35/1 Stronger juvenile laws were enacted and violent repeaters were finally jailed in New Orleans.
2002 J. Lethem in M. Braly On Yard (new ed.) Introd. p. ix The rest are a broad array of prisoners, some ‘hardened’ repeaters, some newly arrived at San Quentin, some floating in between.
d. A person who achieves a particular success, achievement, etc., again; esp. (Sport) a person who wins a contest, championship, etc., again.
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society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > other players
server1585
free agent1649
benchwarmer1662
puncher1681
sticker1779
hard hitter1790
hitter1813
go-devil1835
beneficiaire1841
colt1846
heavyweight1857
stayer1862
left-hander1864
attack1869
cap1879
international1882
roadman1886
big leaguer1887
homester1887
sand lotter1887
badger1890
internationalist1892
repeater1893
anchorman1895
grandstander1896
stylist1897
homebrew1903
letterman1905
toss-loser1906
fouler1908
rookie1908
mudder1912
sharpshooter1912
pro-amateur1919
receiver1919
southpaw1925
freestyler1927
hotshot1927
active1931
all-timer1936
iceman1936
wild card1940
scrambler1954
rounder1955
franchise1957
call-up1960
trialist1960
non-import1964
sandbagger1965
rebel1982
wide-body1986
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > one who > one who repeats success or achievement
repeater1944
1893 N.-Y. Times 27 May 3/5 Allen is a very good repeater, and if there are many trials run his chances will be bettered materially.
1944 Sun (Baltimore) 13 Jan. 11/2 Mr. Fetterman and Mr. Huffer..got..certificates for their suggestions. Mr. Fetterman is a repeater. He..isn't sure just how many citations have come from the War Production Board for his ideas.
1977 Ebony June 154/1 He was the first repeater in the batting race since Pete Rose won two titles in 1968-69.
2008 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 7 Dec. Lange and Keszler were among five wrestlers who successfully defended individual Lions championships. Other repeaters were Johnson, Klapprodt and Jensen.
e. Education (originally and chiefly U.S.). A student who undertakes a grade or course again. Cf. repeat v. 7e.
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society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > one repeating course
repeater1909
1909 Cleveland Public Schools Ann. Rep. 32 Dr. Ayres affirms that every sixth child in the elementary schools of American cities of size is a ‘repeater’.
1945 C. V. Good Dict. Educ. 342/2 Repeater, a pupil who has repeated or is currently repeating the work of a grade or part of a subject at some designated level of difficulty.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 6 Nov. 17/3 Repeaters are assigned to schools and remedial classes according to age as well as grade.
2004 Washington Post (Nexis) 12 May a1 Many of the repeaters had failed English, which students must pass before they become 10th-graders.
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repeaterv.
/rᵻˈpiːtə/, U.S. /rəˈpidər/, /riˈpidər/ Telecommunications.
transitive. To provide (a circuit) with a repeater (repeater n. 4d); to amplify (a signal) by means of a repeater. Usually in passive.
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1905 Cycl. Appl. Electr. (Amer. School of Correspondence) I. 322 Another long circuit is that between New York and Heart's Content, Newfoundland, with repeaters at Boston, St. John, and North Sydney. In a few seconds these two circuits could be repeatered at New York; San Francisco and Heart's Content could then work duplex through nine repeaters.
1974 U.S. Patent 3,796,920 2 Carrier signals..pass through the coupling capacitor, amplified by the receiving amplifier or repeatered by the repeater.
2008 R. Kirkby & K. Kerpez in P. Golden et al. Implementation & Applic. DSL Technol. vii. 289 The HDSLs would be repeatered on such a long loop.
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