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Rebound vs Remound - What's the difference?

rebound | remound |

As verbs the difference between rebound and remound

is that rebound is to bound or spring back from a force while remound is past tense of remind.

As a noun rebound

is the recoil of an object bouncing off another.

rebound

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) rebondir.

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
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  • (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darling , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonisingly over the bar. }}
  • (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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 23 , author=Alasdair Lamont , title=Hearts 0-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Martin Kelly fired in a dangerous cross and the Hearts defender looked on in horror as the ball rebounded off him and into the net.}}
  • To give back an echo.
  • (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
    • (Alexander Pope)
  • To send back; to reverberate.
  • * Dryden
    • Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound , / And carry to the skies the sacred sound.

    See also

    * bound (verb)

    Etymology 2

    see rebind

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rebind)

    • Anagrams

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    remound

    English

    Etymology 1

    A (l) formed on the pattern of find ? found.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (remind)
  • * 1830 , Filaret, “On the Tenses of Greek Verbs” in The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle , ed. Sylvanus Urban, volume 100, part 2, page 125
    • [W]hat should we now think of the grammar which should run thus: 1. pret. I fighted,'' thou ''fightedst'', &c. 2d pret. ''I fought,'' &c. And again, 1st pret. ''I reminded,'' &c. 2d pret. I ''remound ?
  • * 1918 , The Judge (Judge Publishing Company), volume 75, page unknown
    • I find — that is to say, I’ve found —
    That when one knows “sink, sank and sunken,”
    He soon is strenuously remound
    He mustn’t say “blink, blank and blunken.”
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    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • the (l) or mounds of ((especially), a (l) or graves).
  • * 1916 , Economic Entomology: Pamphlets , volume 109, page 1,130
    • In some soils, mounds made earlier wash down, thus making it necessary to remound in the fall.
  • * 1995 , L. R. Goldman, “The Depths of Deception: Cultural Schemas of Illusion in Huli”, chapter 3 in Papuan borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands , ed. Aletta Biersack, page 275
    • [W]omen may continue to remound old gardens for ten years or more.
  • * 2006 , William Gay, Twilight (MacAdam/Cage Pub.; ISBN 1596920580, 9781596920583), page 7
    • He drove the spade into the earth mounded atop the grave and leaning his weight into the work began to remound the earth in a pile next the grave.
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  • (chiefly, in food preparation) into a mound.
  • * 1983 , William Shurtleff [aut.] and Akiko Aoyagi [illust.], The Book of Miso: Savory, High-protein Seasoning (2nd ed.; Ten Speed Press; ISBN 0898150973, 9780898150971), page 181
    • Remound koji into oval volcano shape, re-cover tray with lid set slightly ajar, and re-cover incubation box with blankets.
  • * 1991 , Fred Bridge and Jean F. Tibbetts, The Well-Tooled Kitchen (Morrow), page 97
    • Roll a rolling pin 1 to 2 times over the mixture to flatten the butter particles, gather into a mound again, then use the pastry blender to cut until powdery with some oatmeal-shaped flakes throughout; remound .
  • * 1995 , Jesse Ziff Cool, Onions: A Country Garden Cookbook (Collins Publishers San Francisco; ISBN 0002554526, 9780002554527), page 1
    • As the plant grows, move the tube upward and remound the dirt to cover the base and the blanched leaves.
  • (rosiculture, rare) with a (l) mound.
  • * 1999 , Thomas Cairns, Ortho’s All About Roses (Meredith Books; ISBN 0897214285, 9780897214285), page 28
    • Watch for wrinkling on the canes — the first sign of dehydration. If this occurs, recut the canes below the wrinkling, remound the plant, and water well.