Word Finder - repeating

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To do or say again (and again).

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The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.

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To refill (a prescription).

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To happen again; recur.

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To echo the words of (a person).

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To strike the hours, as a watch does.

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To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.

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To repay or refund (an excess received).

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(procedure word) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.

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Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.

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To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.

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Repetition

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That repeats; repetitive.

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Of a firearm: capable of firing multiple times without needing recharging.

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Of a decimal: recurring.

She kept repeating the words over and over.

Dear one! she kept repeating, wiping away her tears with her fingers.

A cord circuit, similar in many respects, including the method .y.^9 Jr '' of operation, but equipped with condensers and impedance coils, in place of the repeating coil, is shown in fig.

The prayers (twenty-six in all) are mostly mystical outpourings repeating the aspirations found in her other writings.

The volume u may be determined by repeating the experiment when only air is in the cup. In this case v =o, and the equation becomes (u --al l) (h - k') =uh, whence u = al' (h - k l) /k'.

The membrana tympani or drum of the ear, has, in like manner and on the same principles, the property of repeating the vibrations of the external air which it communicates to the internal parts of the ear.

Repeating the process for other positions, we get the influence line Aghb, for the shear at C due to unit load anywhere on the girder.

Repeating the process with the arcs AC and CB, and continuing the repetition indefinitely, we divide up the required area and the remainder of the triangle ATB into corresponding elements, each element of the former being double the corresponding elements of the latter.

Though his sentences themselves are not wordy, he is extremely diffuse in treatment, habitually repeating an idea in successive sentences of much the same import.

He introduced several practical improvements, such as the measurement of time to tenths of a second; and he prevailed upon the government to replace Bird's mural quadrant by a repeating circle 6 ft.

Thomas ordered his lieutenant to retire on Nashville, Hood following him up, impressing recruits, transports and supplies, and generally repeating the scenes of Bragg's march of 1862.

In the next year,, however, laws were passed repeating in a stronger form the attacks of 1857 on the supremacy of the Church, and prohibiting monastic life.

There used to be a good deal of fraud practised at elections, including personating and repeating, as well as a good deal of bribery in a few states and in some of the larger cities.

Appended to the London edition of the solar and lunar tables are two short tracts - the one on determining longitude by lunar distances, together with a description of the repeating circle (invented by Mayer in 1752), the other on a formula for atmospheric refraction, which applies a remarkably accurate correction for temperature.

The widow then loosens and removes the shoe, throwing it some distance, and spits on the ground, repeating thrice the Biblical formula "So shall it be done," &c. Ilalisah, which is still common among orthodox Jews, must not take place on the Sabbath, a holiday, or the eve of either, or in the evening.

The arithmetico-geometrical mean of two quantities is obtained by first forming the geometrical and arithmetical means, then forming the means of these means, and repeating the process until the numbers become equal.

Thus in New Zealand "a priest by repeating charms can cause the spirit to enter into the idol.

She applied herself to learning the language with such zeal that she rose at night and walked about her bedroom barefoot repeating her lessons.

Matthew Paris, in repeating the passage from Roger of Wendover, reported that other Armenians had confirmed the story on visiting St Albans in 1252, and regarded it as a great proof of the Christian religion.

On returning to the church, two or four singers enter first and close the doors, then, turning towards the procession outside, sing the first two verses of the hymn "Gloria, laus et honor," those outside repeating them, and so on till the hymn is finished.

His researches in hydrodynamics were highly useful for marine engineering, while the reflecting and repeating circles, as improved by him, were of great service in nautical astronomy.

In thus repeating over and over on wood and copper nearly the same incidents of the Passion, or again in rehandling them in yet another medium, as in the highly finished series of drawings known as the "Green Passion" in the Albertina at Vienna, Darer shows an inexhaustible variety of dramatic and graphic invention, and is never betrayed into repeating an identical action or motive.

They seem to have preserved among them the primitive manual called the Teaching of the Apostles, for Bishop Longland in England condemned an Anabaptist for repeating one of its maxims " that alms should not be given before they did sweat in a man's hand."

In repeating and extending the experiments of Haiiy much later, Sir David Brewster discovered that various artificial salts were pyro-electric, and he mentions the tartrates of potash and soda and tartaric acid as exhibiting this property in a very strong degree.

The process described by Quincke is somewhat elaborate; but there is little difficulty in repeating the experiment if the mistake be avoided of using a free surface already contaminated, as almost inevitably happens when the mercury is poured from an ordinary bottle.

The second method consists in taking a series of names or symbols for the first few numbers, and then repeating these according to a regular system for successive numbers, so that each number is defined by reference to the number immediately preceding it in the series.

History, in fact, was repeating itself.

The " verification " of this hypothesis, offered in the thirteenth and following chapters of the second book, goes to show in detail that even those ideas which are " most abstruse," how remote soever they may seem from original data of outward sense, or of inner consciousness, " are only such as the understanding frames to itself by repeating and joining together simple ideas that it had at first, either from perceiving objects of sense, or from reflection upon its own operations."

The legend according to which Galileo, rising from his knees after repeating the formula of abjuration, stamped on the ground, and exclaimed, "Eppur si muovel" is, as may readily be supposed, entirely apocryphal.

I proceeded to slowly relate the full detail of what Howie had recorded, repeating the description of the man, car and license plate number.

His thoughts were a carousel that like repeating ponies progressed in circles no closer to conclusion than the start of the ride.

Dean tried to phrase the next question as delicately as possi­ble, repeating it in his mind before releasing the words.

Then us ' lefties ' can look foreward to repeating yet another Labor landslide victory next time ah wouldn't that be nice tricky?

Be ready, instead, to use approaches like drawing diagrams, repeating things and committing them to memory or making audiotapes.

Repeating their Christmas Day victories, the Uppies took both ba 's today.

Around the rim is a raised band of cobalt blue repeating leaf ornament between two bands of lighter blue on raised cordons.

Kewell is also claiming an injunction restraining the defendants from repeating the allegedly defamatory views.

Your superior races seem merely desirous of not repeating previous errors.

I won't bother repeating his words, suffice to say they are the usual offensive diatribe.

We look forward to repeating the exercise in two years time.

Initially he kept repeating that he was in the hands of God, not fallible human doctors.

Verify the results of the preliminary study by repeating some experiments in a larger flume.

The original fractal, this is a pictorial representation of a complex equation to describe systems with a hierarchy of repeating patterns.

Repeating a word or sign of the other interlocutor then adding more words or signs to add to the information.

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The destinations and connectivities of these repeating units of eight cells, at the point where they join the lamina, is being determined.

To shuffle on with aching limbs Each burning step repeating " Who dares wins " !

Continually repeating the major premise with prophetic fervor will not demonstrate the truth of the minor premise.

A classic of early minimalism, in Piano Phase (1967) the two pianists begin by repeating a rapid figure in unison.

A polymer is a long molecule made up of lots of repeating units called monomers.