noun
Meaning 1
The act of rewinding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
rewind
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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UK: /ɹiːˈwaɪnd/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -aɪnd
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CMU ARPABET: R IY1 W AY0 N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A button or other mechanism for rewinding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I meant to pause the picture, but hit the rewind by mistake.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To wind (something) again.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To wind back, of something clocklike or recordlike, like a cassette, tape, film; especially to then replay or relive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Examples
- Let's rewind the clock to an earlier time.
- Rewind the tape to the first chapter.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To regress the state of playback of a recording.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- I've rewound the audiobook to the start of the chapter.
- This video player can rewind smoothly.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English wind English rewind From re- + wind.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: վերափաթաթել (verapʻatʻatʻel) — to wind again
- Chinese Mandarin: 重繞 /重绕 (chóngrào) — to wind again
- Dutch: weer oprollen — to wind again
- Esperanto: rebobeni — to wind again
- Finnish: kelata uudelleen — to wind again
- French: rembobiner — to wind again
- Galician: rebobinar — to wind again
- Georgian: უკან ახვევს (uḳan axvevs) — to wind again
- German: zurückspulen — to wind again
- Hungarian: visszateker — to wind again
- Italian: riavvolgere — to wind again
- Italian: rimbobinare — to wind again
- Japanese: 巻き直す (maki-naosu) — to wind again
- Portuguese: rebobinar — to wind again
- Russian: перема́тывать (peremátyvatʹ) — to wind again
- Russian: перемота́ть (peremotátʹ) — to wind again
- Serbo-Croatian: premotati — to wind again
- Spanish: rebobinar — to wind again
- Vietnamese: quấn lại — to wind again