repeat (re¦peat)

verb

• 1 [reporting verb] say again something one has already said: [with direct speech]: ‘Are you hurt?’ he repeated [with object]: Billy repeated his question [with clause]: Ann repeated that she was very comfortable
• say again (something said or written by someone else): he repeated the words after me [with clause]: she repeated what I’d said
• (repeat oneself) say or do the same thing again: she was fretful and kept repeating herself

• 2 [with object] do (something) again or more than once: earlier experiments were repeated on a larger scale
• broadcast (a television or radio programme) again: the thirteen episodes from the first two series were constantly repeated
• undertake (a course or period of instruction) again: Mark had to repeat first and second grades
• (repeat itself) occur again in the same way or form: I don’t intend to let history repeat itself
• [no object] US illegally vote more than once in an election.
• [no object] North American attain an achievement again, especially by winning a championship for the second consecutive time: the first team in nineteen years to repeat as NBA champions

• 3 [no object] chiefly British (of food) be tasted intermittently for some time after being swallowed as a result of belching or indigestion: that cucumber repeated on me for hours

noun

• something that occurs or is done again: the final will be a repeat of last year
• a repeated broadcast of a television or radio programme: she goes home alone to TV dinners and repeats of ‘I Love Lucy’
• [as modifier] occurring, done, or used more than once: a repeat prescription a repeat offender
• a consignment of goods similar to one already received.
• a decorative pattern which is repeated uniformly over a surface: [as modifier]: rugs with simple repeat patterns
• Music a passage intended to be repeated.
• Music a mark indicating a passage to be repeated.