repeat

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
repeat/rɪˈpiːt/

▶verb

• 1 say again.

  ■ (repeat oneself) say or do the same thing again.

• 2 do again or more than once.

  ■ (repeat itself) occur again in the same way: history has repeated itself.

• 3 chiefly Brit. (of food) be tasted after being swallowed, as a result of indigestion.

▶noun

• 1 an instance of repeating or being repeated.

  ■ [as modifier] occurring, done, or used more than once: a repeat prescription.

• 2 a repeated broadcast of a television or radio programme.

• 3 a consignment of goods similar to one already received.

• 4 a decorative pattern which is repeated uniformly over a surface.

• 5 Music a passage intended to be repeated.

  ■ a mark indicating this.

– derivatives
repeatability noun,
repeatable adjective,
repeated adjective,
repeatedly adverb,
repeater noun,
repeating adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr. repeter, from L. repetere, from re- ‘back’ + petere ‘seek’.