Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To say or perform again; repeat. See Synonyms at repeat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- v. computing, mathematics to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set or on the results of each such prior action
- n. mathematics a function that iterates
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Uttered or done again; repeated.
- v. To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.
- adv. By way of iteration.
WordNet 3.0
- v. run or be performed again
- v. to say, state, or perform again
Etymologies
- From Latin iterō ("I do a second time, repeat"), from iterum ("again"), akin to is ("he, that"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin iterāre, iterāt-, from iterum, again; see i- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Theoretically what you say may be partly true, but the key point, which I iterate, is that it is not the individual borrowers, even most of the sub-prime borrowers, who have defaulted.”
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“We want to take our time and experiment and iterate, which is exactly what we've done with the product, which is why we've had success.”
“Each tab keeps its own issue selection, which allows you to "iterate" through different query results at the same time.”
“In a later podcast, Cutts said that while Buzz perhaps needed more testing, rapid deployment allowed Google to get rapid feedback on Buzz and "iterate" quickly and "try out a lot of different things" (see latter half of clip above).”
“Our version of this rule is "iterate": once you've followed the "be crappy" rule, it's time to create new & better versions, all the time.”
“Danny Huynh, Associate Search Director at Razorfish, has this to say about the tool: We see the display ad builder as a great creative sandbox, allowing us to us to quickly test and iterate with new ad formats and capabilities that simple text ads can't offer.”
“So, just to re-iterate: Tim F., you are doing the work of our better angels here, and I thank you.”
“Joan and David -- partners, Tudor began to iterate and reiterate in a malicious and scornful chant.”
“I must iterate that I had this thought in the midst of my dreaming, and I take it as an evidence of the merging of my two personalities, as evidence of a point of contact between the two disassociated parts of me.”
“So fail frequently but fail small; and iterate quickly.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘iterate’.
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Deprefixed words
A list of words you more frequently hear used with prefixes than without.
clement, witting, ravel, whelm, fettered, licit, couth, bridled, wieldy, kempt, ingenuous, iterate and 116 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
enjoidooks's Words
rastafari, facetious, desultory, dubiously, ineluctable, incarnadine, diapason, alembic, empathy, feckless, transcendence, thus and 190 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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My List
A list of words that I have generated over time.
cairn, cacodaemoniacal, abash, abject, abjure, abstemious, abhor, abnegate, abnegation, abscond, abstruse, acclivity and 702 more...
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Oblivion
By David Foster Wallace
ossify, reverie, hypergeometric, emetic, mien, cruciform, accreted, perpend, rheostat, predilections, coccyx, hirsute and 178 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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useful vocab
pysmatic, relentless, storge, preamble, oscillate, itinerary, frolic, frolicsome, abdicate, frolicking, divergent, abnegate and 312 more...
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apoplectic, absolve, accentuate, accost, acrimony, adjudicate, adulate, affront, agrarian, alacrity, ambivalence, ascetic and 120 more...
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portablec's Words
jawbreaker, narnad, pax, chaw, vealpie, saltherring, decisive, rummaged, raggedy, trifle, scribblement, numskull and 50 more...
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Article Words
GRE study words from articles read in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic and The Economist
egalitarian, iterate, boon, vie, cadre, bandied, valuation, bandy, akimbo, expostulation, truncheon, rout and 3 more...
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evil marketing words that upon use, s...
these words were overused during the web 1.0 frenzy period. unfortunately, many marketers with nothing better to say continue to use them lazily, giving copywriters a bad name and people who buy te...
solutions, end-to-end, robust, enable, best of breed, mindshare, brand synergy, clicks-and-mortar, disintermediate, cutting edge, industry-leading, convergence and 8 more...
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Helpful Communicators: For emphasis
downright, warrant, necessitate, indicative, arduous, helm, proliferation, sheer, garner, ensure, assure, iterate
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for iterate.
sionnach It's always been a verb, and has a perfectly natural place in the world of applied mathematics and computer programming. Jul 25, 2008
arby Since when is this a verb? It's more corporate-speak that I hate. Recent usage: "We need to iterate this problem." Jul 25, 2008