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rebound
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Rebound is a 2005 autobiographical comedy film directed by Steve Carr . It stars Martin Lawrence as a disgraced college basketball coach who returns to his old middle school to coach the boys' basketball team. This was also Tara Correa 's only film role. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rebound \Re*bound"\ (r[-e]*bound"), v. i. [Pref. re- + bound: cf. F. rebondir.] To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, in reference to a ball, from rebound (v.). Sense in basketball from 1920 (from 1917 in ice hockey). Meaning "period of reaction or renewed activity after disturbance" is from 1570s.
Usage examples of rebound.
It had been many days now since he was dosed with anaphrodisiacs, and maybe there was some rebound effect.
Ryan was leaping up the first flight, booting down on the prone body of the first man and clutching at the corner pole of the banister, yanking himself up and around and grabbing the third man as he tottered forward on the rebound from the wall.
The doors rebounded, popped open, and the overfull trash basket toppled, scattering its contents, knocking the cleansers and the can of oven cleaner onto the floor with a clatter.
It overshot and rebounded from a gable of frozen nitrogen, its nozzle jinking back and forth as it tried to stabilize its position.
Hot ordnance split and shiver and rebound, And firelocks fouled and flintless overstrew the ground.
They fired energy blasts from their hands and eyes, the crackling energies rebounding from personal force shields.
He and Dincrist bounced off the walls, ceiling, and floor of the tank, turning in midair as the gravity field was rotated, tumbling and landing neatly, rebounding from the resilient, transparent panes.
It seemed to be rebounding very slowly from the dirt, higher and slower after each impact.
Justen bowed, then grasped the railing to catch his balance as the ship, after rebounding from the pier, shuddered at the end of the taut mooring lines.
Her wild spinning was slowing now as she approached the curving wall of the dome and met roiling air rebounding off it.
Under her window there was a beehive, and sometimes the bees wheeling round in the light struck against her window like rebounding balls of gold.
In her head she seemed to feel the floor of the ball-room rebounding again beneath the rhythmical pulsation of the thousands of dancing feet.
The wires will have to be rebound into bundles in order to be reinserted and render the burners even potentially workable, but my uncle has no tool for binding.
She had just watched a gaggle of Blue Devils bumping chests after Shelden Williams had rebounded a Shavlik Randolph miss and been fouled.
Redick finished with 29 points, Shelden Williams with 25 and 17 rebounds.