rerun

«rerun» in Mova's school dictionary: A TV programme or film shown again — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) A TV programme or film shown again. tree →

2) (verb) To run a race, a test or a program again. tree →

3) (noun) Something that happens again in the same way. tree →

sense 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 →
• The race was rerun after a false start. tree →
• Rerun the program and see if the bug is gone. tree →
• We reran the experiment and got the same result. tree →
• The final was a rerun of last year's match. tree →
• I watched a rerun of my favourite show. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

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