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rewinding

rewinding is the present participle and gerund of rewind.

Noun

rewinding (plural rewindings)

  1. The act or process by which something is rewound.
  2. A set of replacement coils on an electric motor or other device that uses wound wires to generate a magnetic field.
    • The Crookes tube has accordingly been modified until it is no longer a new-fangled burning glass: motors, coils, rewindings, regulators and transformers have been interposed between the street current and the tube[…]1902, Dietetic and hygienic gazette, volume 18, page 477

Meaning of rewind

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To wind (something) again.
    • A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind.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
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To wind back, of something clocklike or recordlike, like a cassette, tape, film; especially to then replay or relive.
    • Let's rewind the clock to an earlier time.
  3. (figuratively) To regress the state of playback of a recording.
    • I've rewound the audiobook to the start of the chapter.
  4. (figuratively) 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"2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee, “Time Machine”, in Lights Out, performed by Ingrid Michaelson

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Forms of rewinding

pluralrewindings

Questions about rewinding

What does rewinding mean?
Rewinding means the act or process by which something is rewound.
What is rewinding the present participle and gerund of?
Rewinding is the present participle and gerund of rewind.
What part of speech is rewinding?
Rewinding is a noun.
What is the plural of rewinding?
The plural of rewinding is rewindings.

Words near rewinding in the dictionary

  1. rewind
  2. rewindable
  3. rewinded
  4. rewinder
  5. rewinders
  6. rewinding
  7. rewindings
  8. rewinds
  9. Rewinkle
  10. rewinning
  11. rewins

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