Used in a Sentence

rewind

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for rewind.

Editorial note

If this was someone pressing play+record on an analogue audio-only tape, after fumbling around with fast-forward and rewind, sure!

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

The act of rewinding.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of rewind gathered in one view.

noun

The act of rewinding.

noun

A button or other mechanism for rewinding.

verb

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rewind.

noun

The act of rewinding.

noun

A button or other mechanism for rewinding.

verb

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

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To wind (something) again.

Example sentences

1

If this was someone pressing play+record on an analogue audio-only tape, after fumbling around with fast-forward and rewind, sure!

2

Also, to get to the old ship, you just rewind the events, because the state can be fully reconstructed (no weird side-effects).

3

Some sort of 'rewind time' in the debugger so you could determine what happened when to get to this state of error.

4

Let me rewind a little bit in my own life.

5

Play to charge, rewind to discharge, how hard is that?.

6

Computers can rewind every bit that ever flipped.

7

They just photograph the entire city from the air once per second and when a shooting happens they rewind, then trace where the suspect came from and went[1].

8

You couldn't just rewind a public feed, and find this information out about any given person - you had to dedicate manpower to tracking any one given individual.

9

Also true history and rewind capability.

10

> Imagine that you could see your life in rewind: You would slide into bed each morning with the ring of your alarm clock.

11

If you want to rewind to the mid-00s it's easy enough to get something like this set up - certainly easier than buying your own 35mm projector or microfilm machine like other archival formats.

12

When wanting to rewind I'd like the forward part of the video to keep downloading, not reload the video from that point and lose all ahead of it that's already downloaded.

Quote examples

1

Rewind to a decade ago and suggesting that "the government" was committing mass surveillance and spying on everyone would be considered a conspiracy theory.

2

No fair!" "So I started a new exchange to rewind the markets back to the glorious, equitable, fair, transparent days of 2006.

Proper noun examples

1

Rewind a bit and people would have blinked an eye if you had used your (bulkier) laptop all the time.

2

Rewind the clock to that morning in 1938 when Bill Hewlett started working with David Packard in the garage at the house where Packard lived.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use rewind in a sentence?

If this was someone pressing play+record on an analogue audio-only tape, after fumbling around with fast-forward and rewind, sure!

What does rewind mean?

The act of rewinding.

What part of speech is rewind?

rewind is commonly used as noun, verb.