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Antonyms for repeater
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ri-pee-ter |
Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈpi tər |
Definition of repeater
Origin :- 1570s, agent noun from repeat (v.). As a type of firearm from 1868; as "a frequent offender" from 1884.
- As in timepiece : noun device that tells time
- As in convict : noun criminal
- As in criminal : noun person who breaks the law
- Just as she finished there came to her the crack of Dinsmore's repeater.
- Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
- When, then, his repeater had told him the hour, Aaron turned and addressed his brother.
- Extract from : « Manasseh » by Maurus Jokai
- He touched the spring of his repeater, to correct this most preposterous clock.
- Extract from : « A Christmas Carol » by Charles Dickens
- I struck my repeater, and this seemed to astound her greatly.
- Extract from : « Carmen » by Prosper Merimee
- Then Oliver took out his watch, which was a repeater, and struck it.
- Extract from : « Queen Sheba's Ring » by H. Rider Haggard
- Among them was a repeater, belonging to our young Marylander.
- Extract from : « The Professor at the Breakfast Table » by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)
- Odd to see a savage so engaged; above all possessed of a repeater!
- Extract from : « The Death Shot » by Mayne Reid
- It would have been as likely to have happened to my repeater, if I had kept it at home.
- Extract from : « Rollo's Museum » by Jacob Abbott
- In Fig. 41 we have what remains of a quarter repeater with musical attachment.
- Extract from : « Time and Its Measurement » by James Arthur
- He took out the repeater that I had seen before and set it striking.
- Extract from : « Sonia Married » by Stephen McKenna
Synonyms for repeater
- alarm clock
- bad actor
- black marketeer
- blackmailer
- calendar
- captive
- chronograph
- chronometer
- chronoscope
- clepsydra
- clock
- con
- convict
- crook
- culprit
- delinquent
- desperado
- deuce
- dial
- evildoer
- ex-con
- felon
- fugitive
- gangster
- gnomon
- guerilla
- heavy
- hood
- hoodlum
- hooligan
- horologe
- hourglass
- hustler
- inside person
- isochronon
- jailbird
- lawbreaker
- long-termer
- loser
- malefactor
- metronome
- mobster
- mug
- muscle
- offender
- outlaw
- pendulum
- prisoner
- racketeer
- repeater
- scofflaw
- sinner
- slippery eel
- stopwatch
- sundial
- thug
- time-keeper
- transgressor
- trespasser
- watch
- wrongdoer
- yardbird
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