Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To wind again or anew.
- intransitive verb To reverse the winding of (audiotape, videotape, or film).
- intransitive verb To reverse the playing of (an audio or video recording).
- intransitive verb To rewind an audiotape or other linear recording.
- intransitive verb To be rewound.
- intransitive verb To return to an earlier time or stage in a sequence of events.
- noun The act or process of rewinding or being rewound.
- noun A control mechanism for rewinding tape or film, for example.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, intransitive To
wind (something)again . - verb transitive, intransitive To
wind (something)back , now especially ofcassette or video tape; togo back on a video or audio recording. - noun The act of rewinding.
- noun A
button or othermechanism for rewinding.
Etymologies
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Examples
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NEONBEAR dead wrong. be kind rewind is the only one close to being a blemish, if only because it gets overly sentimental in the end. blog comments powered by Disqus
In Michel Gondry’s Future: Ellen Page, Time Travel, Animation and More (UPDATED) | /Film 2010
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If you wanted to hear them again, you hit rewind, which is a word in the English language that you recognize and understand, listened to the Chipmunks sing backward for the second and then whammo, you hit the big button and listen to your message again.
Knox Daniel Dunkle 2009
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Did a similar longer reneck of a $79 1961 jc penney catalog Kay truetone bass with a Curtis Novak pickup rewind, which is my go to bass, just like the '64 avatar shot
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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But when you go back and look at the historical record, when you kind of rewind the tape and watch it slowly, it turns out that those eureka moments are really, really infrequent.
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Whether this is a sort of "rewind" feature, or a "design feature" (or some combination of the two), I have not yet discovered.
Archive 2008-06-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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If they could press "rewind," they would live more in their present and worry less about the future.
Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: New Year's Resolutions: What Would You Change If You Could Do Your Life Over? Ph.D. Vivian Diller 2010
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If they could press "rewind," they would live more in their present and worry less about the future.
Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: New Year's Resolutions: What Would You Change If You Could Do Your Life Over? Ph.D. Vivian Diller 2010
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Whether this is a sort of "rewind" feature, or a "design feature" (or some combination of the two), I have not yet discovered.
San Marco Clock Tower, Venice Heather McDougal 2008
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Remember that regardless of the often too contentious exchanges here, we all (except maybe for the ABC crowd) ultimately want the same thing: to install a Dem president in the WH so that we can begin to "rewind" the disastrous presidency of GWB, the Village Idiot.
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But I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down "rewind" and releasing it randomly - effective, if a little laboured.
APED: "the moaning house" hradzka 2009
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