replaying
replaying is the present participle and gerund of replay.
Meaning of replay
Verb
replay (third-person singular simple present replays, present participle replaying, simple past and past participle replayed)
- To play again.
- So I replayed my '46 scenario and asked another unstandard academic, a charismatic, disenchanted philosophy professor named George Geiger, who had been Lou Gehrig's backup on the Columbia baseball team and John Dewey's last graduate student, what I should do.2012, Clifford Geertz, Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics
- To display a recording of a previous event, especially multiple times.
- Sundown yellow moon / I replay the past / I know every scene by heart / They all went by so fast1975, “If You See Her, Say Hello”, in Bob Dylan (lyrics), Blood On The Tracks, performed by Bob Dylan
Noun
replaying (plural replayings)
- The act by which something is replayed.
- It took several replayings before I could write down the entire recorded message.
Forms of replaying
| plural | replayings |
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Origin of replaying
From re- + play + -ing.
Questions about replaying
- What does replaying mean?
- Replaying means the act by which something is replayed.
- What is replaying the present participle and gerund of?
- Replaying is the present participle and gerund of replay.
- What part of speech is replaying?
- Replaying is a noun.
- What is the plural of replaying?
- The plural of replaying is replayings.
Words near replaying in the dictionary
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