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repetir — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • drill verb To make a hole in something using a rotating cutting tool.
  • duplicate adj Exactly the same as something else, especially because it was copied from it.
  • echo verb Of a sound, to bounce off a surface and be heard again; to reverberate.
  • rebroadcast noun Retransmission; a repeated or relayed broadcast.
  • rehearse verb To practise a performance, speech, or scene in preparation for the real thing.
  • repeat verb To say or do something again.
  • replay verb To play something again, especially a recording.
  • reply verb To give a spoken or written answer to a question, message, or accusation.
  • rerun noun A television program shown again after its original broadcast.

Senses

repetir is used for these senses in English:

  • belabour (transitive) To discuss or explain (something) excessively or repeatedly; to harp on or overelaborate.
  • drill (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
  • duplicate (transitive) To do repeatedly; to do again.
  • echo (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
  • rebroadcast To broadcast again.
  • rehearse (transitive) To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
  • repeat (transitive) To do or say again (and again).
  • replay (transitive) To play again.

drill — full definition

  1. verb To make a hole in something using a rotating cutting tool.
  2. verb To practise something repeatedly, often in a military or training context, until it becomes automatic.
  3. noun A tool or machine used for boring holes.
  4. noun A repeated practice exercise designed to build a skill or prepare for an emergency.
  5. noun A dark, gritty style of trap music known for aggressive, often violent lyrics.

duplicate — full definition

  1. adj Exactly the same as something else, especially because it was copied from it.
  2. verb To make an exact copy of something.
  3. noun An exact copy of something else.

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