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

2) (verb) To run a race, a test or a program again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#m2)

3) (noun) Something that happens again in the same way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#x1)
- The race was rerun after a false start. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#x2)
- Rerun the program and see if the bug is gone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#x3)
- We reran the experiment and got the same result. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#x4)
- The final was a rerun of last year's match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#x5)
- I watched a rerun of my favourite show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/#x6)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rerun/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.