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Repeat vs Repeated - What's the difference?

repeat | repeated |

As verbs the difference between repeat and repeated

is that repeat is to do or say again (and again) while repeated is past tense of repeat.

As a noun repeat

is an iteration; a repetition.

As an adjective repeated is

having been said or done again.

repeat

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
  • (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
  • (Waller)
  • (legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An iteration; a repetition.
  • We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
  • A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun.
  • Patterns of nucleid acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.
  • See also

    * redundant

    repeated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (repeat)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having been said or done again.
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  • The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.
  • Sequential.
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  • The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated' modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often ' repeated —conceptual modification.

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