Phrase Hound found 6 phrases and 9 compound words that contain repeats. The most common are listed below. Open repeats in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 6
- repeats itselfthird-person singular simple present indicative of repeat itself: To occur again (recur) in the same way or form.
- history repeats itselfThings that have happened in the past will or tend to happen again in one way or another.
- tandem repeatsplural of tandem repeat: A pattern of adjacent repeats in DNA.
- short tandem repeatsplural of short tandem repeat: A pattern in DNA where two or more nucleotides are repeated and the repeated sequences are directly adjacent to each other, used in determining genetic profiles to identify an individual.
- repeats oneselfthird-person singular simple present indicative of repeat oneself: To say again what one has already said, usually several times.
- runs and repeatsthird-person singular simple present indicative of run and repeat: To continue doing (an action, typically a negative one), especially after being warned not to do so or punished for doing so.
Compound words 9
- subrepeatsplural of subrepeat: A subset of a repeat (iteration)
- decarepeatsplural of decarepeat: A pattern of ten repeats
- homorepeatsplural of homorepeat: A repeat in which all the nucleic acids (or amino acids) are the same
- microrepeatsplural of microrepeat: A very short repeat
- misrepeatsthird-person singular simple present indicative of misrepeat: To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- octarepeatsplural of octarepeat: A sequence of octapeptides that are repeated in a polypeptide or protein
- oligorepeatsplural of oligorepeat: A section of several repeats in a chromosome
- pentarepeatsplural of pentarepeat: A pattern of five repeats (in a nucleic acid or protein (especially a prion))
- polyrepeatsplural of polyrepeat: A polymeric repeat