Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
REPEAT
repeat, repetition
(noun) an event that repeats; “the events today were a repeat of yesterday’s”
recur, repeat
(verb) happen or occur again; “This is a recurring story”
repeat, echo
(verb) to say again or imitate; “followers echoing the cries of their leaders”
repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell
(verb) to say, state, or perform again; “She kept reiterating her request”
reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate
(verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition
duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate
(verb) make or do or perform again; “He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick”
repeat, take over
(verb) do over; “They would like to take it over again”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
repeat (third-person singular simple present repeats, present participle repeating, simple past and past participle repeated)
(transitive) To do or say again (and again).
(transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
(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.
(legal, Scotland) 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.
To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
Synonyms
• (to do or say again): redo, reiterate, reprise, rework see also reiterate
• (to happen again): reoccur; see also repeat
Noun
repeat (plural repeats)
An iteration; a repetition.
A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
(medicine, pharmacy) A refill of a prescription.
(genetics, biochemistry) 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.
Synonyms
• (iteration; repetition): reiteration, reoccurrence; see also reoccurrence
Anagrams
• Partee, Perate, retape
Source: Wiktionary
Re*peat" (-pt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repeated; p. pr. & vb. n. Repeating.] Etym: [F. répéter, L. repetere; pref. re- re- + petere to fall upon, attack. See Petition.]
1. 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. "I will repeat our former communication." Robynson (More's Utopia). Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish. Milton.
2. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. [Obs.] Waller.
3. (Scots Law)
Definition: To repay or refund (an excess received). To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said.
– To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters.
Syn.
– To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See Reiterate.
Re*peat" (r-pt"), n.
1. The act of repeating; repetition.
2. 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.).
3. (Mus.)
Definition: A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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