reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate
(verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition
Source: WordNet® 3.1
reprise (plural reprises)
A recurrence or resumption of an action.
(music) A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
(fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
A taking by way of retaliation.
(legal, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
(construction) In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
reprise (third-person singular simple present reprises, present participle reprising, simple past and past participle reprised)
(obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.
To repeat or resume an action
(obsolete) To recompense; to pay.
• (repeat an action): repeat; see also reiterate
• (recompense): compensate, reimburse; see also reimburse
• perries, respire
Source: Wiktionary
Re*prise" (r-prz"), n. Etym: [F. reprise, fr. reprendre, repris, to take back, L. reprehendere. See Reprehend.]
1. A taking by way of retaliation. [Obs.] Dryden.
2. pl. (Law)
Definition: Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like. [Written also reprizes.] Burrill.
3. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
Re*prise", v. t. Etym: [Written also reprize.]
1. To take again; to retake. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. To recompense; to pay. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
