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What Is It Called When You Repeat Something Over and Over Again

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Definition of echo

verb (used with object)

to say or utter over again (something already said): to echo a discussion for accent.

to say or utter in reproducing the words, inflections, etc., of another: to repeat a sentence after the teacher.

to reproduce (utterances, sounds, etc.) in the manner of an echo, a phonograph, or the like.

to tell (something heard) to another or others.

to do, make, or perform over again: to repeat an action.

to go through or undergo once again: to repeat an feel.

verb (used without object)

to do or say something again.

to cause a slight regurgitation: The onions I ate are repeating on me.

to vote illegally past casting more than one vote in the aforementioned election.

noun

the deed of repeating.

something repeated; repetition.

a duplicate or reproduction of something.

a decorative pattern repeated, usually by printing, on a material or the similar.

Music.

  1. a passage to be repeated.
  2. a sign, every bit a vertical organisation of dots, calling for the repetition of a passage.

a radio or television program that has been circulate at least once before.

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Origin of repeat

Kickoff recorded in 1325–75; Middle English repeten (verb), from Center French repeter, from Latin repetere "to attack once again, demand return of," equivalent to re-re- + petere "to reach towards, seek" (cf. perpetual, petulant)

synonym study for repeat

one, 5. Repeat, recapitulate, reiterate refer to saying a thing more than than once. To echo is to do or say something again: to echo a question, an society. To recapitulate is to restate in cursory class, to summarize, often past repeating the chief points in a discourse: to recapitulate an statement. To reiterate is to practice or say something over and over once more, to echo insistently: to reiterate a refusal, a demand.

OTHER WORDS FROM repeat

Words nearby echo

meal, repatriate, repatriation, repay, repeal, repeat, repeated, repeatedly, repeater, repeating decimal, repeating firearm

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British Dictionary definitions for repeat


Definition of repeat

verb

(when tr, may take a clause equally object) to say or write (something) again, either in one case or several times; restate or reiterate

to practise or experience (something) again in one case or several times

(intr) to occur more than once the last figure repeats

(tr; may take a clause as object) to reproduce (the words, sounds, etc) uttered past someone else; echo

(tr) to utter (a poem, speech, etc) from memory; recite

(intr)

  1. (of food) to exist tasted again after ingestion as the result of belching or slight regurgitation
  2. to belch

(tr; may have a clause as object) to tell to another person (the words, esp secrets, imparted to ane by someone else)

(intr) (of a clock) to strike the hour or quarter-hour just past, when a spring is pressed

(intr) US to vote (illegally) more than once in a unmarried ballot

echo oneself to say or do the aforementioned thing more than in one case, esp so as to be slow

noun

  1. the act or an instance of repeating
  2. (as modifier) a repeat performance

a word, action, etc, that is repeated

an order made out for goods, provisions, etc, that duplicates a previous order

a duplicate copy of something; reproduction

radio tv a further broadcast of a plan, film, etc, which has been circulate before

music a passage that is an exact restatement of the passage preceding it

Derived forms of repeat

repeatability, noun repeatable, adjective

Give-and-take Origin for repeat

C14: from Onetime French repeter, from Latin repetere to seek over again, from re- + petere to seek

usage for echo

Since over again is part of the meaning of repeat, one should non say something is repeated again

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