Repeat vs. Recur — What's the Difference?

Say again something one has already said

To happen or occur again or repeatedly

Do (something) again or more than once

To return to one's attention or memory

(of food) be tasted intermittently for some time after being swallowed as a result of belching or indigestion

To return in thought or discourse

Something that occurs or is done again

(Archaic) To have recourse; resort

To say again

(intransitive) To happen again.

To utter in duplication of another's utterance

To come to the mind again.

To recite from memory

(dated) To speak, write or think about something again; to return or go back (to a subject).

To tell to another

(obsolete) To go back to using or doing something.

To do, experience, or produce again

(obsolete) To have recourse (to someone or something) for assistance, support etc.; to turn or appeal to (someone or something).

To express (oneself) in the same way or words

(obsolete) To go to a location again; to return (to a place).

To say something again.

To recurse.

To do or experience something again, especially to win a championship for a second time in a row.

To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.

To occur or happen again

To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.

To commit the fraudulent offense of voting more than once in a single election.

To resort; to have recourse; to go for help.

An act of repeating.

Happen or occur again;

Something repeated, as an interval in athletic training.

Return in thought or speech to something

A broadcast of a television or radio program that has been previously broadcast; a rerun.

Have recourse to;

A passage or section that is repeated.

A sign usually consisting of two vertical dots, indicating a passage to be repeated.

Of, relating to, or being something that repeats or is repeated

(transitive) To do or say again (and again).

To refill (a prescription).

(intransitive) To happen again; recur.

(transitive) To echo the words of (a person).

(intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.

(obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.

To repay or refund (an excess received).

To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.

To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.

An iteration; a repetition.

A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.

A refill of a prescription.

A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).

(music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.

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.

To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.

To repay or refund (an excess received).

The act of repeating; repetition.

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.).

A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.

An event that repeats;

To say, state, or perform again;

Make or do or perform again;

Happen or occur again;

To say again or imitate;

Do over;

Repeat an earlier theme of a composition