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RECAPITULATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Summarize briefly

Example:

Let's recapitulate the main ideas

Synonyms:

recap; recapitulate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "recapitulate" is one way to...):

resume; sum up; summarise; summarize (give a summary (of))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recapitulate"):

hash over; rehash; retrograde (go back over)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

recapitulation (a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Repeat an earlier theme of a composition

Synonyms:

recapitulate; repeat; reprise; reprize

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "recapitulate" is one way to...):

play; spiel (replay (as a melody))

Domain category:

music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

recapitulation ((music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "recapitulate" is one way to...):

double; duplicate; reduplicate; repeat; replicate (make or do or perform again)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

recapitulation (emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species)

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