Recite

Word RECITE
Character 6
Hyphenation re cite
Pronunciations /ɹɪˈsaɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Recite"

What do we mean by recite?

To repeat or utter aloud (something memorized or rehearsed), often before an audience. intransitive verb

To relate in detail: synonym: describe. intransitive verb

To list or enumerate. intransitive verb

To deliver a recitation. intransitive verb

To repeat lessons prepared or memorized. intransitive verb

Recital. noun

To repeat or say over, as something previously prepared or committed to memory; rehearse the words of; deliver orally: as, to recite the Litany; to recite a poem.

In music, to deliver in recitative.

To relate the facts or particulars of; give an account or statement of; tell: as, to recite one's adventures or one's wrongs.

To repeat or tell over in writing; set down the words or particulars of; rehearse; cite; quote.

Synonyms Cite, Adduce, etc. (see quote); Rehearse, Reiterate, etc. (see recapitulate); enumerate, detail.

To make a recitation or rehearsal; rehearse or say over what has been learned: as, to recite in public or in a class.

A recital. noun

To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned. intransitive verb

To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse. transitive verb

To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate transitive verb

To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor. transitive verb

To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5. transitive verb

To repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, often before an audience verb

To list or enumerate something verb

To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.

To list or enumerate something.

To deliver a recitation.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Recite

The word "recite" in example sentences

Bush could decapitate Christianne Amanpour on CNN (though he'd probably prefer to do it on Fox News), and claim he's learned she's part of a sleeper cell and was about to recite a code word - and that would be legal according to Gonzalez, because he was acting as Commander in Chief on the War in Terror. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As the children variously sing, tap-dance or recite from the works of T. H. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The constitutional catechism that Supreme Court nominees must recite is a way of taking the temperature, so to speak, of particular constitutional controversies and the degree to which they have reached settlement. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Helen went to the Royal Academy, but when asked to deliver her report upon the pictures she began to recite from a pale blue volume, O! for the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still. ❋ Unknown (1921)

This is especially true for professors who (1) largely recite from the book; and (2) call on people who don’t know what they’re talking about but keep asking them questions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Iqra, "recite," the angel had told him, and thus the stirring opening lines of the Quran -- "the recitation" -- came into being. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since these altered texts differ from those still retained in the Missal, choirs which "recite" the texts will do so from the Vatican "Gradual", and not from the Missal. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

I told him I would favour the company with a display of my elocutionary abilities, but purposely withheld the title of the selection which I meant to recite, meaning at the proper time to surprise my hearers. ❋ Tony Sarg (1910)

Gabriel (or Jibreel) to "recite" the message of Allah (Arabic for God). ❋ JeezusFreak32 (2010)

The sole exception is that Holmquist has them "recite" the entire piece in a nearly sing-song cadence that eventually numbs one's brain to the specific words being spoken and that there are so many characters played by each cast member that the accent work goes in and out through the whole piece. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So I thought I'd use my blog to "recite" them as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here are two of my favorites I've made and "recite" regularly: being human is being a monster trying not to be scary ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ditto for working with verse; without proper training in how to work naturally with the verse, the tendency will be either to "recite" the verse and abandon natural delivery, or strive for "casual" delivery and trip constantly over the verse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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