REWIND | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of rewind in English
rewind verb
(GO BACK )
Will you rewind that scene so we can watch it again?
We can't rewind history and try it a different way.
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rewind verb
(WRAP AGAIN )
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(Definition of rewind from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
Examples of rewind
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Krapp lets it play out and then rewinds the tape to hear the complete episode.
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Rewinding risks rubbing the film against itself, which can cause scratching of the film and smearing of the emulsion which carries the pictures.
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The camera handles winding and rewinding automatically, to the extent that partially exposed films can, in certain cameras, be removed and used later.
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The symptoms of this breakdown are immediately obvious even when rewinding the tape: tearing sounds and sluggish behavior.
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He certainly made a very fine clock for the king, which went for a year without rewinding.
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However, the sheer scale of some games makes computationally expensive solutions like rewinding impossible.
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If the player fails the scene's objective, the scene ends, then quickly rewinds back to the beginning to be played again.
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The player advances through each level along a filmstrip map, and can revisit previously-completed levels by rewinding the filmstrip.
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He finds the microphone and recorder, then stops and rewinds the tape.
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The mechanism was said to require rewinding every 24 hours.
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The hidden track can be found by rewinding the first track to roughly -1:33.
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Manually rewinding film could not be done with a flash mounted in this shoe because the flash blocked the crank.
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Note that because of the serpentine writing, rewinding often takes less time than the maximum.
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The cartridges played anywhere from eight to 24 minutes, and were self rewinding.
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Computer systems normally avoid rewinding their clock when they receive a negative clock alteration from the master.
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Translations of rewind
in Chinese (Traditional)
倒回（磁帶）, 倒（帶）, 倒（片）…
in Chinese (Simplified)
倒回（磁带）, 倒（带）, 倒（片）…
in Spanish
retroceder, rebobinar, botón de rebobinado [masculine…
in Portuguese
rebobinar, rewind [masculine], REW…
in Japanese
in Turkish
in French
in Catalan
in Arabic
in Polish
in Norwegian
in Korean
in Italian
in Russian
（録音・録画）を巻き戻す, 巻（ま）き戻（もど）す, 巻（ま）き戻（もど）しボタン…
rembobiner, retour [masculine]…
spole tilbake, tilbakespolingsknapp [masculine]…
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