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# repeat

verb (repeat, repeats, repeated, repeating); noun (a repeat)

«repeat» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To repeat is to do or say something again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#m1)
2. To repeat after someone is to say the same words they said. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#m2)
3. A repeat is a TV show shown again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#m3)
4. A pattern that repeats has the same part again and again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#m4)
5. A repeating decimal has digits that go on again forever, like 0.333... [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#m5)

### In the lessons

In school maths: a pattern that repeats (the repeating part, find the 10th or 20th item using the remainder); doing something again a number of times; repeated addition is multiplication. In music and literacy: a repeat sign, a chorus that repeats. In everyday life: «Could you repeat that, please?». Phrases: «repeat after me», «repeat yourself», «on repeat».

### Examples

- The pattern repeats every 3 beads. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#x1)
- Repeat the step 4 times. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#x2)
- What is the 10th shape if the pattern repeats? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#x3)
- She repeats the song twice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#x4)
- Could you repeat the question, please? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#x5)
- Repeat after me: «Two times three is six». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#x6)
- Multiplication is repeated addition: 4 + 4 + 4 = 3 × 4. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#x7)
- I played my favourite song on repeat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#x8)
- Little Gerda repeated the Lord's Prayer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/#x9)

### Note

«Repeat again» says the same thing twice; just «repeat». Noun «repetition». Maths: a repeating pattern: use the remainder after dividing by the pattern length. Trap: «repeat twice» can mean do it 2 more times (3 in all) — read carefully.

## In Jewish tradition

In school maths: a pattern that repeats (the repeating part, find the 10th or 20th item using the remainder); doing something again a number of times; repeated addition is multiplication. In music and literacy: a repeat sign, a chorus that repeats. In everyday life: «Could you repeat that, please?». Phrases: «repeat after me», «repeat yourself», «on repeat».

### Examples

- twenty-two letters, the Sefer Yetzirah demonstrates by permu- tations in whicli letters never repeat themselves but only change their places. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#x1)

### Note

«Repeat again» says the same thing twice; just «repeat». Noun «repetition». Maths: a repeating pattern: use the remainder after dividing by the pattern length. Trap: «repeat twice» can mean do it 2 more times (3 in all) — read carefully.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «repeat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«repeat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/repeat.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «repeat» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«repeat» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/repeat.html) on Mova free.