rebound
English
Etymology 1
From Old French rebondir.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹiˈbaʊnd/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹibaʊnd/
Noun
rebound (plural rebounds)
- The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
- A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
- I am on the rebound.
- An effort to recover from a setback.
- A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently-ended romantic relationship.
- 2008, Craig Ainsworth, Proceed with Caution: Life's a Journey, →ISBN, page 96:
- What if she was a rebound after all and he didn't feel the same way for her anymore?
- 2009, Kenny Attaway, Nuthouse Love, →ISBN, page 154:
- Nika was dealt a terrible blow in finding she was a rebound and that Steve was still madly in love with his ex and that their love affair was sparked out of retaliation[.]
- 2010, Joan Moran, Sixty, Sex, & Tango: Confessions of a Beatnik Boomer, →ISBN, page 43:
- Sure, he was a rebound, but he was a respectable rebound. Then, the rebound broke up with me.
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- (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
- (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
Translations
recoil of an object bouncing off another
return to health
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effort to recover from a setback
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romantic partner, for the sake of recovery
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the strike of the ball
Verb
rebound (third-person singular simple present rebounds, present participle rebounding, simple past and past participle rebounded)
- To bound or spring back from a force.
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
- Sir Isaac Newton
- To give back an echo.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of T. Warton to this entry?)
- (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Alexander Pope to this entry?)
- (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.
- Dryden
- Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound, / And carry to the skies the sacred sound.
- Dryden
Translations
To bound or spring back from a force
To jump up or get back up again
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See also
- bound (verb)
Etymology 2
see rebind
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹibɑʊnd/
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