zoom
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
1892 verb, 1918 noun, 1942 interjection. Originally imitative of a sound.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
zoom (plural zooms)
- a humming noise from something moving very fast
- a quick ascent
- a big increase
- an augmentation of a view as with a lens
Translations [edit]
humming noise
big increase
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augmentation of a view
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Verb [edit]
zoom (third-person singular simple present zooms, present participle zooming, simple past and past participle zoomed)
- to move fast with a humming noise
- to fly an airplane straight up
- to move rapidly
- to go up sharply
- prices zoomed
- to change the focal length of a zoom lens
- (used with in or out) to manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it
Derived terms [edit]
Descendants [edit]
Translations [edit]
to move rapidly
to change the focal length of a zoom lens
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Anagrams [edit]
Dutch [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle Dutch soom, from Old Dutch *sōm, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”). Cognate with English seam.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
zoom m (plural zomen, diminutive zoompje)
Verb [edit]
zoom
- first-person singular present indicative of zomen
- imperative of zomen
- first-person singular present indicative of zoomen
- imperative of zoomen
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
English zoom.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
zoom m (plural zooms)
- zoom (photography)
Derived terms [edit]
German [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /zuːm/
Verb [edit]
zoom
- Imperative singular of zoomen.
- (colloquial) First-person singular present of zoomen.
Italian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
English
Noun [edit]
zoom m (invariable)
- (photography) zoom
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