Reseat vs. Repeat

(transitive) To provide (e.g. a room) with more, or new, seats.

Example: ‘We should reseat this cinema - the old seats are worn.’;

(transitive) To seat (someone) again, to give somebody a different seat.

Example: ‘We have to reseat you, sir: this seat is reserved for the guest speaker.’;

To sit down again.

Example: ‘I reseated after standing up to applaud the prizewinner.’;

To plug (something) back into its socket.

Example: ‘Try reseating your video adapter, and see if that fixes your computer's problems.’;

To fit (something, especially a valve) back into its place.

Example: ‘To ensure that there are no leaks, clean the surfaces before you reseat the valve.’;

To seat or set again, as on a chair, throne, etc.

To put a new seat, or new seats, in; as, to reseat a theater; to reseat a chair or trousers.

provide with a new seat;

Example: ‘reseat the old broken chair’;

provide with new seats;

Example: ‘reseat Carnegie Hall’;

show to a different seat;

Example: ‘The usher insisted on reseating us’;

(transitive) To do or say again (and again).

Example: ‘The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.’;

(intransitive) To happen again; recur.

(transitive) To echo the words of (a person).

(intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.

(obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.

To repay or refund (an excess received).

(procedure word, military) 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.

Example: ‘Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.’; ‘Use "say again" instead of repeat on the radio. Repeat will bring in artillery fire.’;

An iteration; a repetition.

Example: ‘We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.’;

A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.

A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).

(music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.

Example: ‘Not well conceived of God; who, though his powerCreation could repeat, yet would be lothUs to abolish.’;

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

To repay or refund (an excess received).

The act of repeating; repetition.

That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).

A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.

an event that repeats;

Example: ‘the events today were a repeat of yesterday's’;

to say, state, or perform again;

Example: ‘She kept reiterating her request’;

make or do or perform again;

Example: ‘He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick’;

happen or occur again;

Example: ‘This is a recurring story’;

to say again or imitate;

Example: ‘followers echoing the cries of their leaders’;

do over;

Example: ‘They would like to take it over again’;

repeat an earlier theme of a composition

say again something one has already said

Example: ‘‘Are you hurt?’ he repeated’; ‘Ann repeated that she was very comfortable’; ‘Billy repeated his question’;

say again (something said or written by someone else)

Example: ‘he repeated the words after me’; ‘she repeated what I'd said’;

say or do the same thing again

Example: ‘she was fretful and kept repeating herself’;

used for emphasis

Example: ‘force was not—repeat, not—to be used’;

do (something) again or more than once

Example: ‘earlier experiments were repeated on a larger scale’;

broadcast (a television or radio programme) again

Example: ‘the thirteen episodes from the first two series were constantly repeated’;

undertake (a course or period of instruction) again

Example: ‘Mark had to repeat first and second grades’;

occur again in the same way or form

Example: ‘I don't intend to let history repeat itself’;

illegally vote more than once in an election.

attain an achievement again, especially by winning a championship for the second consecutive time

Example: ‘the first team in nineteen years to repeat as NBA champions’;

(of a watch or clock) strike (the last hour or quarter) over again when required

Example: ‘a watch repeater that repeats hours and quarters’;

(of food) be tasted intermittently for some time after being swallowed as a result of belching or indigestion

Example: ‘that cucumber repeated on me for hours’;

something that occurs or is done again

Example: ‘the final will be a repeat of last year’;

a repeated broadcast of a television or radio programme

Example: ‘she goes home alone to TV dinners and repeats of ‘I Love Lucy’’;

occurring, done, or used more than once

Example: ‘a repeat prescription’; ‘a repeat offender’;

a consignment of goods similar to one already received.

a decorative pattern which is repeated uniformly over a surface

Example: ‘rugs with simple repeat patterns’;

a passage intended to be repeated.

a mark indicating a passage to be repeated.