rewind

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ wind.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /riːˈwʌɪnd/
• Hyphenation: re‧wind
• Rhymes: -aɪnd

Verb

rewind (third-person singular simple present rewinds, present participle rewinding, simple past and past participle rewound)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To wind (something) again.
   • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 535:

     A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To wind (something) back, now especially of cassette or video tape; to go back on a video or audio recording.

Translations

to wind again

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 重繞 (cmn), 重绕 (cmn) (chóngrào) Czech: please add this translation if you can Dutch: weer oprollen (nl) Finnish: kelata uudelleen (fi) French: rembobiner (fr) German: zurückspulen (de) Hindi: please add this translation if you can

Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 巻き直す (ja) (まきなおす, maki-naosu) Korean: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: rebobinar (pt) Russian: перематывать (ru) (peremátyvat') impf., перемотать (ru) (peremotát') pf. Serbian: premotati (sr) Spanish: rebobinar (es) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

wind back

Danish: spole tilbage (da) Japanese: 巻き戻す (ja) (まきもどす, maki-modosu)

Noun

rewind (plural rewinds)

1. The act of rewinding.
2. A button or other mechanism for rewinding.

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

See also

• fast forward

Anagrams

• winder