REWIND Definition & Meaning

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rewind

[ree-wahynd, ree-wahynd]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with or without object)

rewound , rewinded, rewinding .

to wind again.
to wind back to or toward the beginning; reverse.

noun

an act or instance of rewinding.
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1. a function of an audio or video recorder or player, as a cassette deck or DVR, that returns the audio or video incrementally to an earlier point.
2. the button or other control that activates this reversing function.
a camera control or mechanism used to wind film back into a film cassette.

rewind

verb

(tr) to wind back, esp a film or tape onto the original reel

noun

something rewound
the act of rewinding

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of rewind¹

First recorded in 1710–20; re- + wind ²

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In Chuck years, the film starts when he’s 39 and in his final hours of fading away from brain cancer, rewinds to nine months earlier and then leaps back to his boyhood.

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Few who survive the teen years would want to relive them except, perhaps, if it were possible to rewind into one of Blume’s stories.

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I had to stop and rewind the conversation.

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But if you rewind to the start of this campaign, hopes of success under Postecoglou didn't seem too outlandish.

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To understand the extent of that we have to rewind to August when an independent tribunal cleared him of wrongdoing.

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