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goalpost
English
Etymology
goal +? post.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????lp??st/, /????l-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??o?lpo?st/
- Hyphenation: goal?post
- Rhymes: -??st
Noun
goalpost (plural goalposts)
- (sports) One of the two vertical side poles of a goal.
- (sports, American football) The tall Y-shaped upright, now usually of fiberglass, at either end of the playing field, through which a football must go in order for a field goal to be scored. (They were originally H-shaped, with one wooden post on either side.)
Derived terms
- move the goalposts
Translations
Further reading
- goal (sport) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- goalpost on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- go postal
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rebound
English
Etymology 1
From Old French rebondir.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?i?ba?nd/
- (US) IPA(key): /??iba?nd/
Noun
rebound (plural rebounds)
- The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
- A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
- An effort to recover from a setback.
- (colloquial) 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.
- (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
- (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.
Translations
Derived terms
- rebound effect
- rebound phenomenon
- rebound relationship
- rebound tenderness
- rebound therapy
- rebound volleyball
Verb
rebound (third-person singular simple present rebounds, present participle rebounding, simple past and past participle rebounded)
- To bound or spring back from a force.
- Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
- To give back an echo.
- a. 1714, Alexander Pope, Autumn
- each cave and echoing rock rebounds
- a. 1714, Alexander Pope, Autumn
- (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
- (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.
- Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound, / And carry to the skies the sacred sound.
Translations
See also
- bound (verb)
Etymology 2
see rebind
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ib??nd/
Verb
rebound
- simple past tense and past participle of rebind
Anagrams
- bounder, unbored, unrobed
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