Reiterate

  

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Reiterate

Definition: Reiterate

Reiterate

Verb

1. 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: Reiterate

Synonyms: ingeminate (v), iterate (v), repeat (v), restate (v), retell (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Reiterate

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Reiterate

English words defined with "reiterate": Re-, Reiterated, Reiterating, Re-reiterateTo repeat signals. (references)

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Modern Usage: Reiterate

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Reiterate

DomainTitle

Books

  • ATSN (Artesyn Technologies): Reiterate Buy With $12 Target; Fundamentals Starting To Improve [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • BRCM (Broadcom Corp.): Reiterate Buy On Resurgent Core Product Growth and New Product Ramps [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • CCRN (Cross Country, Inc.): Stock Weakness Related to Competitor Issues; Reiterate Strong Buy [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • FLWS (1-800-FLOWERS.COM): 2Q EPS In Line With Estimates; Reiterate Strong Buy [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • GNSS (Genesis Microchip): Weak on Capacity Concerns & Profit Taking; Reiterate Strong Buy [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Reiterate

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953I here reiterate some of them, and discuss others later in this Message.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Reiterate

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)75.78%9733,269
Lexical Verb (base form)22.66%2964,444
Adjective (general or positive)1.56%2245,945
                    Total100.00%128N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Reiterate

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "reiterate": Re-reiterate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reiterate

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

reiterate

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reiterate

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

repeta (con, go over, ingeminate, iterate, re echo, reaffirm, recapitulate, reduplicate, rehearse, repeat, resound, review). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

повторять (ingeminate, iterate, reduplicate, rehearse, repeat, replicate, resound, reword, say over). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ponoviti (play back, reduplicate, rehash, repeat, replicate, restate, say over, work over). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reiterar (follow up, reaffirm, reassert, repeat, restate). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ånyo upprepa. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

повторювати (iterate, reduplicate, rehearse, repeat, replicate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Reiterate

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

dictito, re-. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reiterate

Derivations

Words beginning with "reiterate": reiterated, reiterates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Reiterate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "reiterate" (pronounced rēi"terā't)
5-i" t er ā' tobliterate.
4-t er ā' tadulterate.
3-er ā' taccelerate, 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.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Reiterate

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Reiterate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 69 74 65 72 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    ..    -    .    .-.    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0069 0074 0065 0072 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

527175867184678671

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INDEX

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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