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Definitions: Replay |
ReplayNoun1. Something (especially a game) that is played again. 2. (television) showing again some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on video tape. Verb1. Reproduce a recording on a recorder. 2. Play again, as of a melody. 3. Repeat a game against the same opponent: "Princeton replayed Harvard". 4. Play again: "We replayed the game"; "replay a point". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Replay Acorn Computers' full-motion video system written by Roger Wilson. Video and sound information are stored in compressed form. Compression is relatively slow but decompression is done in real-time with quality and frame-rate varying with the processing power available, the size of the picture and whether it appears in a window or uses the whole screen. (1994-11-09). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Electrical Engineering | The regeneration of recorded signals in their original form. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is widely used in context of filmed sporting activities and often in slow motion to show the action in detail. In serious filmmaking this technique also helps to show the same scene from a different point of view or perspective.
See also Motion picture terminology
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Replay."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
REPLAY | English | Replay and Evaluation of Software Development Plans using High-Order Meta Systems | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ReplaySynonyms: action replay (n), rematch (n), play back (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Replay |
| English words defined with "replay": action replay ♦ delay ♦ hold ♦ postponement ♦ time lag ♦ wait. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "replay": drop-out compensation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Replay" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Italian (replay). |
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Lyrics | I got footage in the game press replay (Put Ya Hands Up; performing artist: KISS) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Replay (2003) Action Replay (1989) | |
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| "Replay" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.53% of the time. "Replay" is used about 438 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.53% | 379 | 14,472 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.22% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.42% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.14% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 0.68% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 438 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "replay": action replay. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "replay": action-replay, check-replay. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "replay"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zhvilloj sërish, ndeshje e përsëritur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسرحية مكررة, مباراة معادة, تعزف مرة ثانية, عاد عرض المسرحية, أعاد تشغيله ثانية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | просвирване, просвирвам (play, play back, run through), повтарям (echo, geminate, go over, ingeminate, re echo, recrudesce, reduplicate, rehearse, renew, repeat, reproduce, rerun, say over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 重赛. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | genafspilning, afspilning (play back, playback, play-back, reproduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | weergave (play back, playback, play-back, presentation, representation, reproduction, restitution), herspelen, herdraaien. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | toisto (play back, playback, play-back, play-over, repetition, replication, reproduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | repasser (resit), rejouer, redéfilement, répétition (recurrence, recursion, rehearsal, reiteration, repeat, repetition, replication, retake), match réjoué, lecture (read, reading, readout, reproduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wiederholungsspiel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξαναπαίζω (play again, play back). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משחק חוזר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszajátszás (playback), újrajátszás (play-off), lejátszás, ismétlés (iterance, iteration, reduplication, rehearsal, reiteration, repeat, repetition, revision, rote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | memainkan lagi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ritrasmissione, riproduzione (breeding, copy, excerpt, play back, playback, play-back, printing, propagation, quotation, replica, replication, reproduction), ripetere l'incontro, ripetere (echo, iterate, recur, repeat, replicate, retry, rollback, run through, say, say again, to execute successively a series of instructions, to repeat), replay, partita ripetuta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 다시 하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aachloie (afterplay, re enact). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eplayray retransmissão, reprodução (breeding, copy, play back, playback, play-back, procrustean, propagation, reflex, representation, reproduction), voltar a realizar, leitura (lector, perusal, play back, playback, play-back, read, reading, readout, reproduction, sight). (various references) отвечать (answer, be in accord with, rejoin, replied, reply, respond, responded, responding, satisfy), ответ (ans answer, answer, answerback, rejoin, reply, report, response). (various references) ponovo odsvirati, ponovo odigrati, ponovno sviranje. (various references) retransmisión (rebroadcast, relaying, repeat), reproducción (breeding, diagram, figure, image, picture, play back, playback, play-back, rendering, replica, representation, reproduction, spawning), repetir (echo, encore, follow up, play back, re echo, repeat, retail, retake, say again, to repeat), repetición (copy, double, echo, encore, recurrence, recursion, repeat, repetition, replication, rerun, retake), volver a tocar, volver a jugar, lectura (play back, playback, play-back, reading, readout, reproduction, sight), jugar el desempate, desempate (playdown, tie breaker). (various references) repris (recapitulation, repeat, rerun), spela om (play off), omspel, avspelning (play back, playback, play-back, reproduction), återgivning (play back, playback, play-back, reproduction). (various references) yeniden oynamak, tekrarlama maçı, tekrar yayınlama (rebroadcast, rerun). (various references) перегравати (overplay), перегравання (rematch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "replay": replayed, replaying, replays. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "replay": foreplay. (additional references) | |
Words containing "replay": foreplays. (additional references) | |
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"Replay" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arpley, deplay, freeplay, Krepkaya, Rapley, Reepham, relah, relai, relaw, repai, rephlex, Repila, repl, replai, replan, Replat, replevy, repley, repli, Replin, reploy, replug, reslay, rowplas, rplay. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "replay" (pronounced rēplā") |
| 3 | -p l ā" | display, overplay, play, redisplay, underplay. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: parley, pearly, player. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: apery, early, layer, leary, paler, parle, payer, pearl, plyer, relay, repay, reply. | |
-2 letters: aery, aper, aryl, earl, eyra, leap, lear, lyre, pale, paly, pare, peal, pear, play, plea, pray, prey, pyre, rale, rape, real, reap, rely, yare, year, yelp. | |
-3 letters: ale, alp, ape, are, aye, ear, era, lap, lar, lay, lea, ley, lye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: lamprey, palfrey, parleys, parsley, peartly, pedlary, peytral, players, plenary, prelacy, pteryla, reapply, replays, sparely. | |
+2 letters: calypter, dapperly, empyreal, flypaper, foreplay, lampreys, operably, overplay, palfreys, paralyse, paralyze, parlayed, parleyed, parleyer, parsleys, peytrals, plastery, playgoer, playwear, psaltery, pterylae, pyrexial, repandly, replayed, sparsely, superlay. | |
+3 letters: calypters, clepsydra, exemplary, flypapers, foreplays, gyroplane, horseplay, hyperbola, interplay, layperson, operantly, overplays, painterly, paralysed, paralyses, paralyzed, paralyzer, paralyzes, pargyline, parleyers, parleying, parsleyed, perorally, planetary, playgoers, playmaker, polyhedra, polywater, prayerful, preachily, privately, profanely, propylaea, redisplay, repayable, replaying, reputably, superably, underplay. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 6C 61 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. .-.. .- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01101100 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p l a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 006C 0061 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527182786791 |
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