Repeater

Definition

repeat /rÇ'pi:t/ v ၁။ (က) ထပ္ေျပာသည္။ ဆိုၿပီးသားကို ျပန္ဆိုသည္။ repeat a comment/promise/demand ❍ Am I repeating myself? (ie Did I say this before?) ❍ She repeated what she had said. ❍ I repeat: the runway is not clear for take-off. (ခ) ေနာက္ထပ္တစ္ေက်ာ့ (သို႔) အဖန္ဖန္ျပဳလုပ္သည္။ repeat an action/attempt/attack ❍ Such bargain offers can't be repeated. ❍ Repeat the exercise several times before going on to the next one. ❍ The programme is repeated on Wednesday at 9 pm. (ဂ) ~ (itself) အဖန္ဖန္ ထပ္၍ ေပၚေပါက္သည္၊ သံသရာလည္သည္။ a repeating pattern/beat ❍ Does history/the past repeat itself? (ie Do similar events or situations happen again later?) ၂။ (က) လိုက္၍ဆိုသည္။ ျပန္ရြတ္ျပသည္။ Repeat each sentence after me. ❍ He repeated what she had said word for word. (ခ) ~ sth (to sb) ျပန္ေျပာျပသည္။ ေဖာက္သည္ ခ်သည္။ The story is too well-known to bear repeating. ❍ Don't repeat what I said (to anyone) — it's confidential. ၃။ ~ (on one) ပအာသည္။ Do you find that onions repeat (on you)? ၄။ (ျငင္းပယ္ျပပုဒ္ႏွင့္တြဲဖက္၍ ေျပာၿပီးသည့္ စကားကို အေလးအနက္ျဖစ္ေစျခင္းငွာ ထည့္ေျပာေသာစကား)။ ထပ္ေျပာမယ္။ I will not, repeat not, allow you to make remarks like that. n ၁။ ေနာက္ထပ္တစ္ေက်ာ့ ျပဳလုပ္ျခင္း။ a repeat performance/showing ❍ ( commerce ) a repeat order (ie for a further supply of the same goods). ၂။ တစ္ေက်ာ့ျပန္ (ေရဒီယို၊ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကား) အစီအစဥ္။ ‘Is it a new series?’ ‘No, only repeats. ’ ၃။ ( music ) တစ္ေက်ာ့ထပ္ဆိုရန္၊ တီးရန္ ၫႊန္ျပေသာ အမွတ္အသား။ ❏ repeatable adj ျပန္ေျပာႏိုင္[ေသာ]။ ျပန္ေျပာသင့္ [ေသာ] His comments are not repeatable (eg because they were very rude). ❏ repeated adj ဆက္ကာဆက္ကာ ျဖစ္ပြားေသာ။ အႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္ ျပဳလုပ္ေသာ။ repeated blows/warnings/accidents. ❏ repeatedly adv ထပ္တလဲလဲ။ ထပ္ကာတလဲလဲ။ အဖန္ တလဲလဲ။ He begged her repeatedly to stop. ❏ repeater n ( techn ) က်ည္မျဖည့္ဘဲ ဆင့္၍ပစ္ခတ္ႏိုင္ ေသာ ေသနတ္မ်ဳိး။

Examples

1. Can you repeat what you just said
2. please?
3. The first line is repeated throughout the poem.
4. If you repeat those allegations
5. we will consult our lawyers.
6. [repeat that] : He repeated that he was not interested in buying a new car.
7. If you don’t pass this exam you’ll have to repeat a year.
8. Repeat the exercise eight times with each leg.
9. When they repeated the experiment
10. the results were completely different.
11. I’ll tell you a secret
12. but please don’t repeat it to anyone.
13. She can repeat the poem from memory (=without looking at it).
14. [repeat something after someone] : The students carefully repeated the words after the teacher.