REPEAT

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. "I will repeat our former communication." Robynson (More's Utopia). Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish. Milton.

2.
v.

To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. [Obs.] Waller.

3.
v.

To repay or refund (an excess received). To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters.

4.
n.

The act of repeating; repetition.

5.
n.

That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).

6.
n.

A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.


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