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Repeating   /rɪpˈitɪŋ/  /ripˈitɪŋ/   Listen
Repeating

noun
1.
The act of doing or performing again.  Synonym: repetition.



Repeat

verb
(past & past part. repeated; pres. part. repeating)
1.
To say, state, or perform again.  Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, restate, retell.
2.
Make or do or perform again.  Synonyms: double, duplicate, reduplicate, replicate.
3.
Happen or occur again.  Synonym: recur.
4.
To say again or imitate.  Synonym: echo.
5.
Do over.  Synonym: take over.
6.
Repeat an earlier theme of a composition.  Synonyms: recapitulate, reprise, reprize.



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"Repeating" Quotes from Famous Books



... only be observed, in any of the methods of induction, by collecting more and more instances, or repeating experiments. Of course it can never ...
— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read

... the last moment and announced that he was ready to begin his examinations there was a general rejoicing but the mystery was as deep as ever for the boy would not answer any questions at the time, merely repeating that he had been detained but was glad ...
— The Hilltop Boys - A Story of School Life • Cyril Burleigh

... like to give sentence for him; what ever Nondum imbuta Posteritas may do.) Nor doth there appear any Reason, why he should again Repeat it, unless he can hope, That, what was at first False, may by oft Repeating, become True. ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various

... ornamental urn upon its summit. We tremble lest he should break forth amongst us. Much of his time is spent in sighs, burdened with unutterable grief, and long drawn through the funnel. He amuses himself, too, with repeating all the whispers, the moans, and the louder utterances or tempestuous howls of the wind; so that the stove becomes a microcosm of the aerial world. Occasionally there are strange combinations of sounds,—voices talking almost articulately ...
— Fire Worship (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... not deliberately buckle on blinders. Of no country is this axiom more true than of Russia. A man who would see Russia clearly must strip himself of all preconceived prejudices of religion, race, and language, and study the people from their own point of view. If he goes about repeating Napoleon I.'s famous saying, "Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar," he will simply betray his own ignorance of ...
— Russian Rambles • Isabel F. Hapgood


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