Definition of Repeat

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Repeat

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.

To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.

To repay or refund (an excess received).

The act of repeating; repetition.

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.).

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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Repeat Quotations

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wooden

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Walt Disney

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Andy Warhol

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Plato

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Noam Chomsky

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson

Repeat Translations

repeat in Afrikaans is herhaal
repeat in Danish is gentage
repeat in Dutch is herhalen, nazeggen
repeat in Finnish is toistaa
repeat in German is Wiederholung
repeat in Italian is ripetere
repeat in Latin is renovo, resumo (resumpsi; resumptum), revolvo
repeat in Norwegian is gjenta
repeat in Portuguese is repetir
repeat in Spanish is repetir

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