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[edit] English

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1892 verb, 1918 noun, 1942 interjection. Originally imitative of a sound.

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zoom (plural zooms)

  1. a humming noise from something moving very fast
  2. a quick ascent
  3. a big increase
  4. an augmentation of a view as with a lens

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humming noise
quick ascent
big increase
augmentation of a view
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zoom (third-person singular simple present zooms, present participle zooming, simple past and past participle zoomed)

  1. to move fast with a humming noise
  2. to fly an airplane straight up
  3. to move rapidly
  4. to go up sharply
    prices zoomed
  5. to change the focal length of a zoom lens
  6. (used with in or out) to manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it

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to move very fast with a humming noise
to fly an airplane straight up
to move rapidly
to go up sharply
to change the focal length of a zoom lens
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From Middle Dutch soom, from Old Dutch *sōm, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”). Cognate with English seam.

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zoom m. (plural zomen, diminutive zoompje)

  1. edge, border
  2. border of a cloth that is turned around and stitched

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zoom

  1. first-person singular present indicative of zomen.
  2. imperative of zomen.
  3. first-person singular present indicative of zoomen.
  4. imperative of zoomen.

[edit] French

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English zoom.

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zoom m. (plural zooms)

  1. zoom (photography)

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zoom

  1. Imperative singular of zoomen.
  2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of zoomen.

[edit] Italian

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zoom m. inv.

  1. (photography) zoom

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