rewind

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To wind (something) again.

   • A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind.
   • […] she was winding and rewinding bandages that were dripping in blood, smiling strangely at her as the plasma spilled from buckets all over the floor.
2. 2

   To wind (something) back, now especially of a cassette or a video tape, CD, DVD etc.

   To wind (something) back, now especially of a cassette or a video tape, CD, DVD etc.; to go back on a video or audio recording.

   • If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.
3. 3

   To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a…

   To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.

   • If I had a time machine / And if life was a movie scene / I'd rewind, and I'd tell me / "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un"
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   1. 4

      The act of rewinding.

   2. 5

      A button or other mechanism for rewinding.

      • I meant to pause the picture, but hit the rewind by mistake.

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