Dictionary Definition
rebound
Noun
2 a reaction to a crisis or setback or
frustration; "he is still on the rebound from his wife's
death"
3 the act of securing possession of the
rebounding basketball after a missed shot
Verb
1 spring back; spring away from an impact; "The
rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite
after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop,
spring, bound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet]
2 return to a former condition; "The jilted lover
soon rallied and found new friends"; "The stock market rallied"
[syn: rally]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
From rebondir.Noun
Verb
Translations
To bound or spring back from a force
- French: rebondir
To jump up or get back up again
- French: rebondir
(sports) to gain possession from an errant shot
- ttbc Dutch: terugspringen, stuiteren
- ttbc German: abprallen, sich erholen
Etymology 2
rebindPronunciation
- 'ribɑʊnd
Verb
rebind- past of rebind
Extensive Definition
Rebound can refer to:
- Rebound
(sports), in sports, refers to the ball becoming freely
available after a failed attempt to put it into the goal
- Rebound (basketball), the act of successfully gaining possession of the basketball in such a scenario
- Rebound (arcade game), a 1974 arcade game released by Atari Inc
- Rebound (film), a 2005 movie, starring Martin Lawrence and Megan Mullally
- Rebound (song), a 2007 song by German pop group Monrose
- Rebound (dating), a period of time following a particularly painful break-up
- REBOUND (comics), a comic book created by Scott Wherle and Ted Wing III in Jim Valentino's ShadowHawk #7
- Rebound effect, the tendency of a symptom to return when a medication is discontinued or is no longer effective
- Rebound effect (conservation), increases in demand caused by the introduction of more efficient technologies
- Rebound sports is a term used to describe trampolining and similar gymnastic sports which use springed aparatus to propel the gymnast into the air
- Wallyball or "rebound volleyball"
- Post-glacial rebound, the rise of land masses that were depressed by the huge weight of ice sheets during the last ice age
- Tyco Rebound, a remote control toy car sold by Tyco R/C
- Rebound manga, a sequel to Harlem Beat
rebound in German: Rebound
rebound in French: Rebond
rebound in Japanese: リバウンド
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
adaptability, backfire, backlash, backlashing, be reflected,
be sent back, boom,
boomerang, booming, bounce, bounce back, bounciness, bound, bound back, buoyance, buoyancy, cannon, cannon off, carom, comeback, contrecoup, echo, echo back, elasticity, extensibility, flexibility, fly back,
give, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling, have repercussions,
kick, kick back, kickback, lash back, liveliness, reboation, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil, reecho, reflex, repercuss, repercussion, repulse, resile, resilience, resiliency, resound, resounding, responsiveness, return, reverberate, reverberation, ricochet, roll, rumble, rumbling, send back, snap, snap back, sound, spring, spring back, springiness, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, thunder, thundering, tone, tonicity, tonus