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# rerun

noun (a rerun, reruns); verb (rerun, reruns, reran, rerunning)

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

## Everyday

1. (noun) A TV programme or film shown again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#m1)
2. (verb) To run a race, a test or a program again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#m2)
3. (noun) Something that happens again in the same way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life reruns are repeats on TV. In science and computing you rerun an experiment or a program to check it. In sport a race is rerun after a false start. Phrases: «a rerun of», «rerun the race», «rerun the test».

### Examples

- The channel is showing reruns of an old cartoon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#x1)
- The race was rerun after a false start. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#x2)
- Rerun the program and see if the bug is gone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#x3)
- We reran the experiment and got the same result. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#x4)
- The final was a rerun of last year's match. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#x5)
- I watched a rerun of my favourite show. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#x6)

### Note

Irregular: rerun, reran, rerun, rerunning (double «n»). UK people often say «repeat» for a TV rerun. In science, rerunning checks that a result is reliable.

## On Mova

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