单词	repeat
释义	re·peat I. \rə̇ˈpēt, rēˈp-, usu -ēd.+V\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English repeten, from Middle French repeter, from Latin repetere to repeat, go back to, from re- + petere to go to or toward — more at feather transitive verb 1.  a. : to say or state again : reiterate   < repeated his command >   < repeated his question >  b. : to say over from memory : recite   < remember the rest of her lesson, and repeat correctly all those verses — Robert Browning >  c. : to say after another   < repeat the following words after me >  d. : to make public : relate to others : divulge   < I will not repeat your words … outside this cloister; because the consequences to you would certainly be fatal — Henry Adams >   < the child repeats everything he hears > 2.  a. : to make, do, or perform again   < repeated his earlier protests >   < was sent on a similar errand and repeated the theft — Edward Clodd >   < for several years this annual fete was repeated — American Guide Series: Minnesota >  b. : to make appear again : cause to recur : present, show, reproduce   < two end pavilions repeat the dominant motif of the central pavilion — American Guide Series: Minnesota >   < a game that repeated the pattern of many previous ones between the same teams >   < a program repeated on tape >  c. : to go through or experience again   < expected to repeat the years of practical banishment endured by his father — W.C.Ford >  specifically : to take (a grade or course in school or college) again especially to make up a failure   < had to repeat the fourth grade >   < repeated English composition > 3. : to express or present (oneself) again in the same words, terms, or form as before  < history sometimes seems to repeat itself >  < a writer who repeats himself shamelessly >  < wrote innumerable songs without ever repeating himself > intransitive verb 1. : to say, do, or accomplish something again  < there were, to repeat and to conclude, three saving accidents — R.P.Blackmur >  < is favored to repeat as batting champion > as  a. : to vote illegally more than once in a particular election   < registration of voters is designed to eliminate repeating >  b. of a timepiece : to strike again the last hour and sometimes the last half hour, quarter hour, or minute if so adjusted 2. of food : to seem to rise in the gullet : give one its taste again  < boiled onions always repeat on me > Synonyms:  iterate, reiterate, ingeminate: repeat is a general term centering attention on the fact of uttering, saying, or presenting again one or a number of times. iterate and reiterate may stress the fact of frequent repetitive utterance   < the bird in the dusk iterating … his one phrase — C.P.Aiken >   < reiterated the words until her voice died away in a mumble — Gertrude Atherton >   ingeminate may indicate a single repetition, a saying twice   < comes … with his olive branch ingeminating peace — Pall Mall Gazette > Synonym: see in addition quote. II. \“, ˈrēˌp-\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive 1. : the act of repeating  < bloom usually from the latter part of June to the end of July, with an occasional repeat late in August — New Yorker > 2. : something that is repeated : repetition: as  a.   (1) : a musical passage to be repeated in performance   (2) : a sign consisting typically of a vertical series of two or four dots that are placed before and after or often only at the end of a passage to be repeated  b. : a repeated pattern in a textile design  c. : a reorder of merchandise  d. : a repeated telegraph message  e. : a rebroadcast of a radio or television program 3. : the number of threads necessary to make the basic unit of a weave [repeat 2a] III. noun : a genetic duplication in which the duplicated parts are adjacent to each other along the chromosome
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