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Narrator: Today's word is "Rewind" — verb, pronounced /ˌriːˈwaɪnd/, with the stress on "wind".
Narrator: To rewind is to make a recording go back to an earlier point.
Narrator: In plain English, it means go back in a video or song.
Narrator: It joins re with wind, as in winding tape back on a spool.
Narrator: A common collocation is "rewind the tape", which describes an old cassette or video habit.
Narrator: It differs from "replay", because rewind goes back, while replay plays it again.
Narrator: In a second sense, "let's rewind" means let's go back to an earlier point in a conversation.
Narrator: Media, broadcasting, software and everyday speech all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: rewind means go back in time on a recording.
Speaker A: Did you see that goal?
Speaker B: REWIND it! It comes from winding tape back.
Speaker A: Ten seconds?
Speaker B: Perfect, watch again.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Rewind the video to the start", a lesson. "Let's rewind to Monday's meeting", work. "Be kind, rewind", an old rental shop sign.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: The past tense is "rewound", pronounced like "sound", not "rewinded".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Replay is its cousin, go back its twin, and reverse an alternative — yet rewind keeps its retro charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "rewind" in AI prompts — useful for media players and game features.
Speaker A: How for media players?
Speaker B: Add controls.
Prompt: Add a button that rewinds the video by ten seconds and a keyboard shortcut for it.
Speaker A: And games?
Speaker B: Time mechanics.
Prompt: Design a rewind mechanic that lets players undo the last five seconds.
Speaker A: Could it help meetings?
Speaker B: Yes, for recaps.
Prompt: Rewind this meeting transcript to the budget discussion and summarise it.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Debugging.
Prompt: Explain how time-travel debugging lets you rewind program execution.
Rewind — meaning in Arabic & definition More R courses GL Dictionary