repeat

«repeat» in Mova's judaism dictionary: to do or say something again — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

1) To repeat is to do or say something again. tree →

2) To repeat after someone is to say the same words they said. tree →

3) A repeat is a TV show shown again. tree →

4) A pattern that repeats has the same part again and again. tree →

5) A repeating decimal has digits that go on again forever, like 0.333... tree →

sense 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

• 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 →
• The pattern repeats every 3 beads. tree →
• Repeat the step 4 times. tree →
• What is the 10th shape if the pattern repeats? tree →
• She repeats the song twice. tree →
• Could you repeat the question, please? tree →
• Repeat after me: «Two times three is six». tree →
• Multiplication is repeated addition: 4 + 4 + 4 = 3 × 4. tree →
• I played my favourite song on repeat. tree →
• Little Gerda repeated the Lord's Prayer. tree →

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 the corpora

• As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is a fool that repeateth his folly.
• Stories about annoying colleagues told at home are private and should not be repeated outside.
• A repeat prescription is for medicine someone takes regularly, so they do not need to see the doctor every time.
• Repeat a guess enough times and it sticks to a person like a label.
• A reputation can grow from one small moment repeated as «always»; one bad week is not a whole reputation.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «repeat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.