rebound
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Old French rebondir.
Inflected forms:
form: rebounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rebounds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rebounding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rebounded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rebounded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
pos: noun
gloss: A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
pos: noun
examples: I am on the rebound.
gloss: An effort to recover from a setback.
pos: noun
gloss: The period of getting over a recently ended romantic relationship.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: "I get it. Girl caught him on the rebound when he was vulnerable."
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: What if she was a rebound after all and he didn't feel the same way for her anymore?
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[.]
Sure, he was a rebound, but he was a respectable rebound. Then, the rebound broke up with me.
gloss: The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Wemby’s 50-point game was much milder, if that’s even a thing statistically. This season, he has already had a 5×5 (25 points, nine rebounds, seven assists, five steals and five blocks), a near triple-double (24 points, 13 rebounds and nine blocks) and this 50-burger. […] Just that measly 35-point, 14-assist and 12-rebound game from LeBron James as the Lakers got a little revenge on the Grizzlies.
gloss: To bound or spring back from a force.
pos: verb
examples: Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
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.
gloss: To give back an echo.
pos: verb
examples: each cave and echoing rock rebounds
gloss: To jump up or get back up again.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: “Even after this utter devastation, most people in the Greenwood community, most African Americans in Tulsa said to themselves and to their larger community, ‘we shall not be moved.’ And they rebounded and rebuilt and created an incarnation of Black Wall Street that would surpass its initial version.”
gloss: To send back; to reverberate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound, / And carry to the skies the sacred sound.
gloss: To catch the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without scoring a basket for the other team.
pos: verb
examples: By the mid-19605, the top small forwards in the game were Rick Barry and Iohn Havlicek, both of whom excelled as defenders and passers, rebounded well, and provided their respective teams with exceptional scoring.
I knew for sure if Griffin blocked shots and rebounded the basketball my Ravens would become champions.
Related words: bound
Derived words: Holmes rebound phenomenon
postglacial rebound
rebound congestion
rebound effect
rebound exercise
rebound phenomenon
rebound relationship
rebound resilience
rebound sleep
rebound tenderness
rebound therapy
rebound tumbler
rebound-tumbling
rebound tumbling
rebound volleyball
REM rebound
outrebound
reboundable
rebounder
reboundinglyrebounding lock
Translations: