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English

Etymology 1

From Old French rebondir.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i?ba?nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??iba?nd/

Noun

rebound (plural rebounds)

1. The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
2. A return to health or well-being; a recovery.

3. An effort to recover from a setback.
4. (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.
5. (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
6. (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)

1. 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.
2. To give back an echo.
   • a. 1714, Alexander Pope, Autumn

     each cave and echoing rock rebounds

3. (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
4. (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

1. simple past tense and past participle of rebind

Anagrams

• bounder, unbored, unrobed

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?v, IPA^(key): /?e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English shaven, schaven, from Old English s?afan (“to shave, scrape, shred, polish”), from Proto-Germanic *skaban? (“to scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skab?- (“to cut, split, form, carve”). Cognate with West Frisian skave, Dutch schaven (“to shave, plane”), Low German schaven (“to scrape, scratch, shave”), German schaben (“to scrape, shave”), Danish skave, Norwegian Nynorsk skava, Swedish skava (“to scrape, chafe”), Icelandic skafa, Gothic ???????????????????????? (skaban, “to shear, shave”).

Verb

shave (third-person singular simple present shaves, present participle shaving, simple past shaved or (obsolete) shove, past participle shaved or shaven)

1. (transitive) To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
2. (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.
   • 1713, John Gay, The Rural Sports

     The labourer with the bending scythe is seen / Shaving the surface of the waving green.

3. (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.

4. (transitive) To cut finely, as with slices of meat.
5. To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
6. To reduce in size or weight.
7. (archaic, transitive) To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
8. (US, slang, dated, transitive) To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English shave, from Old English sceafa, from Proto-Germanic *skabô.

Noun

shave (plural shaves)

1. An instance of shaving.

2. A thin slice; a shaving.

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3. (US, slang, dated) An exorbitant discount on a note.
4. (US, slang, dated) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular.

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5. A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a spokeshave.
6. (informal) A narrow miss or escape; a close shave.
   • 1919, Edward Frederic Benson, Across the Stream

     " […] I had an awful shave getting into the harbour," remarked Archie.

Derived terms

• close shave

Translations

Anagrams

• haves, sheva

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English sceafa, from Proto-Germanic *skabô.

Alternative forms

• schave, schafe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?v(?)/

Noun

shave (plural shaves)

1. A tool used for filing, shaving, or abrasion.

Descendants

• English: shave

References

• “sh?ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-02.

Etymology 2

Verb

shave

1. Alternative form of schaven