rewinds
Returns tape home
Rewinds is the verb form of rewind—to wind backward, returning something to an earlier position.
Originally applied to tape in cassettes and VCRs: She rewinds the movie to watch that scene again.
Now used for any media playback: He rewinds the podcast thirty seconds.
Figuratively, to mentally revisit: My brain keeps rewinding to that conversation.
VHS
Analog tape format
Betamax · camcorder · reel-to-reel · videotape · audiotape · Walkman · boombox · deck · player · recorder
replay
Repeated broadcast segment
undo · spool · reel · scrub · shuttle · cue · review · playback · restart · loop
- going backreturns, backtracks, retreats, retraces, reverts
- editing toolsred pen, spell check, grammar check, editor, dictionary
temporal direction of media playback
rewindsfast-forwards
Accelerates playback speed
fast forwards · forwards · advances · moves forward · progresses
- rewind buttonControl returning playback backward