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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#m1)

2) To repeat after someone is to say the same words they said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#m2)

3) A repeat is a TV show shown again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#m3)

4) A pattern that repeats has the same part again and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#m4)

5) A repeating decimal has digits that go on again forever, like 0.333... [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#x1)
- The pattern repeats every 3 beads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#x2)
- Repeat the step 4 times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#x3)
- What is the 10th shape if the pattern repeats? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#x4)
- She repeats the song twice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#x5)
- Could you repeat the question, please? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#x6)
- Repeat after me: «Two times three is six». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#x7)
- Multiplication is repeated addition: 4 + 4 + 4 = 3 × 4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#x8)
- I played my favourite song on repeat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#x9)
- Little Gerda repeated the Lord's Prayer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/#x10)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.760/)
- [Stories about annoying colleagues told at home are private and should not be repeated outside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/8/)
- [A repeat prescription is for medicine someone takes regularly, so they do not need to see the doctor every time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/14/)
- [Repeat a guess enough times and it sticks to a person like a label.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/2/)
- [A reputation can grow from one small moment repeated as «always»; one bad week is not a whole reputation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «repeat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/repeat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.