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Definition: Reiterate |
ReiterateVerb1. To say or state again; "She kept reiterating her request..", "``Just barely'' , he said, and repeated his paraphrase:". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reiterate" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
Synonyms: ReiterateSynonyms: ingeminate (v), iterate (v), repeat (v), restate (v), retell (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Repetition | Verb: repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reiterate |
| English words defined with "reiterate": Re-, Reiterated, Reiterating, Re-reiterate ♦ To repeat signals. (references) |
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Screenplays | I think you're right, I do. It's partly because you've gotten to know me this year, but mostly it's that well I told you I was afraid earlier today so please don't tell me you've some to reiterate things that I've already said, because I know the things that I've already said, in fact I'm the one who said them. (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken) | |
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | I here reiterate some of them, and discuss others later in this Message. |
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| "Reiterate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.78% of the time. "Reiterate" is used about 128 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 75.78% | 97 | 33,269 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 22.66% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.56% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 128 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "reiterate": Re-reiterate. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
reiterate | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "reiterate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përsërit (duplicate, echo, ingeminate, recapitulate, recite, reduplicate, rehearse, renew, repeat, replicate, reword, say over), përsëris (duplicate, echo, ingeminate, recapitulate, recite, reduplicate, rehearse, renew, repeat, replicate, reword, say over), bëj përsëri (remake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كرر القول, كرر (do again, duplicate, echo, exalt, hammer out, iterate, rectify, redouble, reduplicate, refine, rehearse, renew, repeat, say again). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | върша многократно, повтарям многократно. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 重" (reaffirm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | znovu opakovat, zdùraznit (accentuate, bring out, emphasize, highlight, lay stress, stress, underline), opakovat (encore, re echo, rehearse, repeat, re-play, review). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تکرارکردن (Reduplicate, Rehearse, Renew, Repeat), تصریح کردن (Affirm, Restate, Specify, Stipulate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | toistaa (repeat, to repeat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | répéter (rehearse, renew, repeat, to repeat), réitérer (repeat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wiederholen (iterate, rebroadcast, recapitulate, repeat, replay, replicate, retake, retry, review, revise, rollback, stay down, to execute successively a series of instructions, to iterate, to repeat, to replicate, to rerun, to retry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επαναλαμβάνω (go over, go through, iterate, rehearse, repeat, restate, resume, to repeat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לחזור ולש ן. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megújít (reform, regenerate, renew, renovate, to reform, to regenerate, to renew, to renovate), ismétel (re echo, recapitulate, repeat, replicate, to chant, to iterate, to recap, to recapitulate, to rehearse, to reiterate, to repeat, to replicate), hajtogat (iterate, to fold, to iterate, to ply, to pucker, to reiterate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | reiterare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | g'aa-raa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eiterateray repetir (con, do up, double, ingeminate, iterate, iteration, play down, reduplicate, reecho, rehearse, repeat, replicate, say again, to execute successively a series of instructions, to repeat), reiterar (ding, ingenious, iterate, reaffirm, repeat, to execute successively a series of instructions). (various references) repeta (con, go over, ingeminate, iterate, re echo, reaffirm, recapitulate, reduplicate, rehearse, repeat, resound, review). (various references) повторять (ingeminate, iterate, reduplicate, rehearse, repeat, replicate, resound, reword, say over). (various references) ponoviti (play back, reduplicate, rehash, repeat, replicate, restate, say over, work over). (various references) reiterar (follow up, reaffirm, reassert, repeat, restate). (various references) ånyo upprepa. (various references) yeniden yapmak (rebuild, redo, remake), tekrarlamak (duplicate, go over, ingeminate, iterate, play back, rebroadcast, recap, recapitulate, recrudesce, recur, re-enact, rehearse, relapse, renew, repeat, replicate, retell, return, revise, say, say over), defalarca söylemek. (various references) повторювати (iterate, reduplicate, rehearse, repeat, replicate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dictito, re-. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reiterate": reiterated, reiterates. (additional references) | |
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"Reiterate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: detiorate, reeiterate, reichsrat, reinterate, reitarate, reiteate, reiterare, reiterat, reiterte, reitierate, reitirate, reitterate, reterrage, ritratto. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reiterate" (pronounced rēi"terā't) |
| 5 | -i" t er ā' t | obliterate. |
| 4 | -t er ā' t | adulterate. |
| 3 | -er ā' t | accelerate, agglomerate, ameliorate, collaborate, commemorate, commiserate, cooperate, corroborate, decelerate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, evaporate, eviscerate, exaggerate, exasperate, exhilarate, exonerate, federate, generate, inaugurate, incarcerate, incinerate, incorporate, invigorate, lacerate, liberate, operate, perforate, proliferate, recuperate, redecorate, refrigerate, regenerate, reincorporate, reinvigorate, reverberate, saturate, separate, tolerate, venerate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-i-r-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: ariette, iterate, rattier, retiree, retreat, tearier, treater. | |
-3 letters: aerier, artier, attire, eerier, irater, ratite, ratter, retear, retire, ritter, tarter, tearer, teeter, terete, terrae, terret, territ, triter. | |
-4 letters: aerie, airer, arete, eater, eerie, irate, rater, retia, retie, tarre, tater, terai, terra, tetra, titer, titre, trait, treat, trier, trite. | |
-5 letters: airt, rare, rate, rear, rete, rite. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-i-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: reiterated, reiterates. | |
+2 letters: deteriorate, entertainer, interrelate, preliterate, reintegrate, reiterative, reorientate. | |
+3 letters: deteriorated, deteriorates, entertainers, extrauterine, interrelated, interrelates, interrogatee, invertebrate, preliterates, redintegrate, reintegrated, reintegrates, reorientated, reorientates, tergiversate, tetrahedrite, thereinafter. | |
+4 letters: deteriorative, interpermeate, interpretable, interrogatees, invertebrates, redintegrated, redintegrates, reintegrative, reiteratively, tergiversated, tergiversates, tetrahedrites. | |
+5 letters: distemperature, enterobacteria, intercorrelate, interferential, interoperative, interpenetrate, interpermeated, interpermeates, interpretative, interrelatedly, intervalometer, intervertebral, radiotelemetry, redintegrative, referentiality, representation, representative, tercentenaries, ultraenergetic. | |
| 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 69 74 65 72 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .. - . .-. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e i t e r a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0069 0074 0065 0072 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527175867184678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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