repeat

Examples

• All

• And also, somewhere in the music, a repeat of an earlier voice: "What is your name?"

  Fiction book (2000)

• No one wants a repeat of this morning.

  Swordfish (2001)

• This is just a repeat of history and it's time.

• Get a lot of repeat customers.

  Limbo (1999)

• Well, how about a perfect repeat of last year's game against Kansas City?

  Fiction book (1992)

• Two years later, with national advertising and repeat customers, sales jumped to $1 million.

  Academic text (1994)

• We can't have a repeat of what happened yesterday.

  Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (2005)

• The trip across the Atlantic was a picture postcard repeat of his first voyage.

  Fiction book (1999)

• It's on repeat.

  Stripperland (2011)

• His were about criminals and the criminal mind, repeat offenders, death sentences, marginality, and voices from prison.

  Fiction book (2001)

Synonyms

C

cycle

vsrepeat

707 2.8

A series of events that repeat in the same order

applies to a single event happening again in the same way not a series

R

repetition

vsrepeat

44 2.0

Doing or saying something again

stresses that the action happens again in the same way

I

iteration

vsrepeat

28 5.1

A repeated version of something that aims to improve it

refers to one event happening again in the same way

R

recurrence

vsrepeat

24 5.0

An event or problem that happens again, often at regular times

is about a single action happening again in the same way not on schedule

R

reiteration

vsrepeat

3 4.9

An action of saying or doing the same thing again to make it clear and show its importance

refers to an action that occurs again without necessarily for emphasis

R

repeating

vsrepeat

1 1.8

Doing something again to practice or make it clear

focuses on doing the action again in an identical way

R

reoccurrence

vsrepeat

1 5.8

Something that happens again

highlights when that event happens again in the same form

R

recurrent event

vsrepeat

3.7

An event that happens again and again at regular times

means a single event that happens again in the same way

Idioms

O

on repeat

5 2.7

People play it again and again, often by pressing a play button

L

lather, rinse, repeat

• Informal

6.9

Do the same steps again, like washing hair with shampoo

How Often

recurrence

24 5.0

pattern

∞ 2.3

repeat

132 1.0

series

∞ 1.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology