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# repeating

«repeating» in Mova's school dictionary: **doing or saying something again and 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); adjective (repeating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Repeating means doing or saying something again and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#m1)

2) A repeating pattern is one that goes over and over in the same order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#m2)

3) A repeating decimal has digits that go on again forever, like 0.333… [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a pattern that comes again in the same order; find what comes at a far place by the length of the pattern; in maths: repeating patterns of shapes, colours or numbers; in music: a repeating chorus; in science: the seasons and day and night repeat in a cycle; in learning: repeating helps you remember

### examples

- The pattern red, blue, green keeps repeating. What is the 10th colour? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x1)
- The repeating part has 4 beads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x2)
- Write the repeating rule: 2, 5, 2, 5 … [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x3)
- She is repeating the song 3 times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x4)
- Repeating your spellings helps you learn them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x5)
- The wallpaper has a repeating pattern of birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x6)
- 1 ÷ 3 = 0.333…, a repeating decimal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x7)
- Day and night keep repeating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x8)
- Stop repeating everything I say! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeating/#x9)

### note

Points to a cycle: the nth item = the item at the remainder of n ÷ pattern length (10 ÷ 3 remainder 1 → red). Trap: a remainder of 0 means the last item of the pattern, not the first. Noun: repetition.

### In the corpora

- [If a friend is being gossiped about, be kind to her and tell a trusted adult rather than repeating the cruel words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/10/)
- [Focused practice means practising with full attention on one goal; watching the clock while repeating easy parts changes very little.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/6/)
- [Mandarin doesn't: you answer by repeating the verb of the question, so the «yes» changes every time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/1/)
- [Repeating «closer… closer… closer» slows time down and builds suspense as the danger comes nearer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/6/)
- [Repeating a key word, or a synonym for it, helps link paragraphs about the same topic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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