What's the difference between repeat and retell?

Repeat


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.
  • (v. t.) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
  • (v. t.) To repay or refund (an excess received).
  • (n.) The act of repeating; repetition.
  • (n.) That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).
  • (n.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
  • (2) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
  • (3) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
  • (4) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
  • (5) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
  • (6) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
  • (7) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
  • (8) A domain containing a CA repeat, similar to ones found in other late, cAMP-induced Dictyostelium genes, is required for cAMP-induced and developmental expression.
  • (9) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (10) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
  • (11) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
  • (12) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
  • (13) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
  • (14) Each species has approximately 500 core histones cluster repeats per haploid genome.
  • (15) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
  • (16) Examinations, begun at day 150 of gestation in 33 monkeys and between days 32 and 58 in four other animals, were repeated at intervals of one to seven days.
  • (17) During that time they have repeatedly demonstrated the likely existence of signalling molecules or morphogens that control the pattern of development in the embryo.
  • (18) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
  • (19) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
  • (20) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.

Retell


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To tell again.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The book begins with Holden directly addressing you, the reader, and he begins to retell the events over a three day period from last December.
  • (2) He's broken limbs, nearly lost fingers and contracted a potentially deadly bone-marrow infection, as well as performing a string of excellent comedy shows retelling his exploits.
  • (3) The children generated three original stories, retold two adventure stories, and then answered two sets of comprehension questions after each retelling.
  • (4) Since the day of the shooting, I have been told the story several dozen times, and it seems that with each retelling the details are subtly different: they grow a little more dramatic perhaps, or a touch more tragic.
  • (5) His first project is to write a stage play, "a modern retelling of the Theseus legend.
  • (6) The creative risk – such as it is – within the new series centres on the retelling of real events as they would have been covered by this idealistic newsroom.
  • (7) But not this year, which has seen box-office success for studio-backed movies such as Son of God ($67m since its debut in late February), Darren Aronofsky’s Noah ($359m), God’s Not Dead ($60m), Heaven is for Real ($91m), and, soon Ridley Scott’s retelling of the story of Moses, Exodus.
  • (8) Here's a selection of some of the one liners he's retelling: There is a reason I’ve got no plans to run.
  • (9) One rebuke to purveyors of a failing conventional wisdom, which may have been refined in the retelling , was "When the facts change, I change my mind.
  • (10) He accomplishes this positive self through narrative retelling of key events in his biography, healing discontinuities by the way he structures his account in interaction with the listener.
  • (11) It’s just something you’d rather not do.” The conference-goers seem to find comfort in telling and retelling the story of sushi – a strange, foreign dish that showcased raw fish and yet became not just acceptable but trendy in the west.
  • (12) Interviews and archive footage impressively retell the story of Tilikum’s capture: a horrifying chase involving explosives, boats and helicopters until the young killer whale calves were herded into a cove.
  • (13) Stuntdriver George Cottle went through four Batmobiles during filming of Batman Begins, a retelling of Bruce Wayne's pre-cape capers that sees him do battle with a scarecrow on a fire-breathing horse hell-bent on, as ever, poisoning Gotham's water supply.
  • (14) Photograph: Dan Glass Glass adds that other grandchildren of survivors have experienced clinical depression, anxiety, addiction and eating disorders, which they blame on the impact of their families constantly retelling stories of the horrific events their relatives endured.
  • (15) Stories were elicited under two conditions--story retelling and story generation--from a group of 23 normal young adults and 4 closed head-injured (CHI) adults who had reached a high level of language recovery.
  • (16) In all three retellings, both groups of subjects retold information in the same order that it occurred in the stories.
  • (17) How did Batty immerse herself in such company, wheeled out at business functions to retell the story of her son’s murder in February 2014?
  • (18) Both aphasic and non-brain-damaged subjects increased the amount of information retold across three retellings, although only the increases from Retelling 1 to Retelling 2 were statistically significant.
  • (19) However, there were significant differences between students with LD and normally achieving students in the amount as well as the type of information included in the retellings and written stories.
  • (20) I watched other FamAnon members retell the pain of walking away from their children, knowing it was the only way, the only hope.

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