repeating

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1. repeating - Noun

2. repeating - Adjective

3. repeating - Verb

Meaning

of Repeat

Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch.

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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Bierce

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. Hermann Ebbinghaus

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. Arthur Schopenhauer

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. Charles A. Beard

Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter. David Gilmour

War gives no opportunity for repeating a mistake. Latin Proverb

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