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{ "term": "repeat", "partOfSpeech": "verb", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "a1", "verbForms": { "presentSimple": { "iYouWeThey": "repeat", "heSheIt": "repeats" }, "pastSimple": "repeated", "pastParticiple": "repeated", "ingForm": "repeating" }, "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "to say or write something again or more than once", "sensetop": "repeat somethingrepeat yourselfrepeat that…repeat + speech", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "to repeat a question/a claim/an assertion/a warning", "contextForm": "repeat something" }, { "text": "to repeat a phrase/mantra" }, { "text": "She **repeated the word** several times." }, { "text": "I'm sorry—could you repeat that?" }, { "text": "She **kept repeating** his name softly over and over again." }, { "text": "The opposition have been repeating their calls for the president's resignation." }, { "text": "Are you prepared to repeat these allegations in court?" }, { "text": "I mentioned it before, but it bears *(= is worth)* repeating." }, { "text": "Do say if I'm repeating myself *(= if I have already said this)*.", "contextForm": "repeat yourself" }, { "text": "He's fond of repeating that the company's success is all down to him.", "contextForm": "repeat that…" }, { "text": "‘Are you really sure?’ she repeated.", "contextForm": "repeat + speech" }, { "text": "‘Oh,’ she repeated lamely." }, { "text": "I can only repeat what I have already said to other journalists." }, { "text": "That message was still being repeated ad nauseam on the radio." }, { "text": "She kept repeating it over and over again like a robot." } ], "collocations": { "adverb": ["just", "merely", "simply"], "verb + repeat": ["can only", "be necessary to", "need to"], "preposition": ["after", "to"], "phrases": ["keep repeating somebody/something"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "used to emphasize something that you have already said", "sensetop": "repeat something", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "The claims are, I repeat, totally unfounded." }, { "text": "Nor, to repeat, can these changes be avoided." }, { "text": "I am not, repeat not, travelling in the same car as him!", "contextForm": "repeat something" } ] }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "to say something that somebody else has said, especially in order to learn it", "sensetop": "repeat somethingrepeat something after somebodyrepeat what…repeat + speech", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "The teacher's statement is then repeated by the students.", "contextForm": "repeat something" }, { "text": "Listen and repeat each sentence after me.", "contextForm": "repeat something after somebody" }, { "text": "Can you repeat what I've just said word for word?", "contextForm": "repeat what…" }, { "text": "‘We were both asleep and didn’t hear anything,’ she repeated.", "contextForm": "repeat + speech" }, { "text": "students repeating drills parrot-fashion" }, { "text": "The students repeated each sentence after their teacher." }, { "text": "He repeated what she had said word for word." } ], "collocations": { "adverb": ["just", "merely", "simply"], "verb + repeat": ["can only", "be necessary to", "need to"], "preposition": ["after", "to"], "phrases": ["keep repeating somebody/something"] } }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "to tell somebody something that you have heard or been told by somebody else", "sensetop": "repeat something to somebodyrepeat something", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "I don't want you to repeat a word of this to anyone.", "contextForm": "repeat something to somebody" }, { "text": "The rumour has been widely repeated in the press.", "contextForm": "repeat something" }, { "text": "Why did you go and repeat what I said to Ian?" }, { "text": "You must not repeat this to anyone." }, { "text": "She faithfully repeated everything he had told her." } ], "collocations": { "adverb": ["just", "merely", "simply"], "verb + repeat": ["can only", "be necessary to", "need to"], "preposition": ["after", "to"], "phrases": ["keep repeating somebody/something"] } }, { "senseNumber": 5, "definition": "to do or produce something again or more than once", "sensetop": "repeat something", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "to **repeat a mistake/process**", "contextForm": "repeat something" }, { "text": "to repeat an experiment/exercise" }, { "text": "Organizers are hoping to repeat the success of last year's event." }, { "text": "He won his first Monaco Grand Prix in 1994 and repeated the feat in 1995, 1997 and 1999." }, { "text": "The treatment should be repeated every two to three hours." }, { "text": "They are hoping to repeat last year's victory." }, { "text": "These offers are unlikely to be repeated." }, { "text": "The programmes will be repeated next year." }, { "text": "to repeat a class/year/grade *(= in a school, to take a class/year/grade again)*" }, { "text": "Lift and lower the right leg 20 times. Repeat with the left leg." }, { "text": "Try not to repeat your mistakes." }, { "text": "They constantly repeat the same mistakes." }, { "text": "There is no point in merely repeating what we've done before." }, { "text": "It may be necessary to repeat the dose several times to effect a cure." } ], "collocations": { "adverb": ["just", "merely", "simply"], "verb + repeat": ["can only", "be necessary to", "need to"], "preposition": ["after", "to"], "phrases": ["keep repeating somebody/something"] } }, { "senseNumber": 6, "definition": "to happen more than once in the same way", "sensetop": "repeat something/itself", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "History has a strange way of repeating itself.", "contextForm": "repeat something/itself" }, { "text": "This phrase is repeated at intervals throughout the song." }, { "text": "a repeating pattern/design" }, { "text": "A single note repeated over and over again, throbbing in my head." } ], "collocations": { "adverb": ["just", "merely", "simply"], "verb + repeat": ["can only", "be necessary to", "need to"], "preposition": ["after", "to"], "phrases": ["keep repeating somebody/something"] } }, { "senseNumber": 7, "definition": "if food repeats, you can taste it for some time after you have eaten it", "sensetop": "repeat (on somebody)", "labels": "(British English, informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "Do you find that onions repeat on you?" } ] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːt/", "audio": "re/repeat/repeat__gb_2.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːts/", "audio": "re/repeat/repeats__gb_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːtɪd/", "audio": "re/repeat/repeated__gb_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːtɪŋ/", "audio": "re/repeat/repeating__gb_2.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːt/", "audio": "re/repeat/repeat__us_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːts/", "audio": "re/repeat/repeats__us_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːtɪd/", "audio": "re/repeat/repeated__us_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːtɪŋ/", "audio": "re/repeat/repeating__us_2.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere, from re- ‘back’ + petere ‘seek’." }