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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɹiːˈwaɪnd/
• ハイフネーション: re‧wind
• 韻: -aɪnd

動詞

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) To wind (something) again.
   • 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 440:

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

   • 2012, Paul Kelly, The Surgeon Was a Lady:

     […] 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. (transitive, intransitive) 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.
   • 2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:

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

3. (figurative) To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.
   • 2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee, “Time Machine”, in Lights Out‎, performed by Ingrid Michaelson:

     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"

   • December 12 2016, Editorial Team, “Editorial: Trump, Putin and the risks of a reset”, in Chicago Tribune‎:

     To understand Russia, you have to dive deep into its history — boyars and czars, Pushkin and Pasternak, Stalin and Stalingrad. To understand the perils of underestimating Russia, you don't have to go back that far. Just rewind to 2001, when George W. Bush naively sized up Vladimir Putin as a leader he could work with, a conclusion Bush reached when he looked into the Russian leader's eyes and "found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.

派生語

名詞

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.

参考

• fast forward

アナグラム

• Widner, winder, indrew, Derwin, Winder