REBIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rebind mean? 

• REBIND (verb)
  The verb REBIND has 1 sense:

1. provide with a new binding

  Familiarity information: REBIND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REBIND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rebind    ... he / she / it rebinds   
Past simple: rebound
Past participle: rebound
-ing form: rebinding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with a new binding

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The tattered old book is valuable and we need to rebind it

Hypernyms (to "rebind" is one way to...):

bind (provide with a binding)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

No spring or rebound was left in them.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

His splendid body and health made new vitality, and he possessed all the resiliency and rebound of youth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This rebound swamped the acceleration caused by the warming climate and made the rate of sea level rise higher in the mid- and late 1990s than it otherwise would have been.

(Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise, NSF)

Many other factors also change the ground level, such as the movement of tectonic plates, volcanic activity, high- and low-pressure weather systems, and Earth's slow rebound from the last ice age.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)

Autophosphorylation establishes a 1000-fold increase in the affinity for its activator Calcium/CaM (also known as CaM trapping); however, autophosphorylation within the CaM-binding domain following CaM dissociation of activated/autophosphorylated enzyme restricts or prevents CaM from rebinding (CaM capping).

(Calmodulin Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Unlike most current models, we included solid Earth processes - such as the elastic rebound of the bedrock under the ice, and the impact of changes in sea level very close to the ice sheet, said JPL's Eric Larour, first author of the study.

(Antarctica's Effect on Sea Level Rise in Coming Centuries, NASA)

Until now, a key question was whether the new soot- and sand-like dust particles would survive the subsequent inward rebound shock wave generated when the first, outward-moving shock wave collides with surrounding interstellar gas and dust.

(Missing Link Between Supernovae and Planet Formation, NASA)

This study shows that, despite a common perception that ecological systems are resilient, they can be so slow to rebound that they're unlikely to return to the same undisturbed state, says Francisco Moore, a program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.

(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)

As the sunlight-blocking aerosols from Mount Pinatubo dissipated in the simulations, sea levels began to slowly rebound to pre-eruption levels.

(Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise, NSF)