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Repeat vs Rejoin - What's the difference?

repeat | rejoin |

As verbs the difference between repeat and rejoin

is that repeat is (intransitive) to do or say again (and again) while rejoin is to join again; to unite after separation.

As a noun repeat

is an iteration; a repetition.

repeat

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
  • *
    • , 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).

    • Related terms

    * repeatedly * repetition * repetitive * repeat oneself

    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

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    * English reporting verbs 1000 English basic words

    rejoin

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To join again; to unite after separation.
  • To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
  • * (editor), ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope , Volume II, page 60,
    • Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot:
  • * , Episode 16
    • The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:
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    • , year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Andrew Benson , title=Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Williams had a problem fitting his left rear tyre and that left Alonso only 3.1secs adrift when he rejoined from his final stop three laps later.}}
  • (archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • 'Be careful what you do,' rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, 'lest someone see you digging, and scent us out.'
  • (archaic): To answer to a reply.
  • (legal) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
  • (patent law , non-standard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).

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