Zoom

See also: zoom

English

Proper noun

Zoom

1. (trademark) Videoconferencing software by Zoom Video Communications.

Verb

Zoom (third-person singular simple present Zooms, present participle Zooming, simple past and past participle Zoomed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software.
   • 2018 February 20, Adrienne So, “Sitting in on Remote Meetings? Working at a Standing Desk? Follow These Tips.”, in Wired‎^[1]:

     Whether you’re Zooming it in or not sitting down on the job, here’s how to do it right.

   • 2020 April 26, Robert Reich, “Covid-19 pandemic shines a light on a new kind of class divide and its inequalities”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     These are professional, managerial, and technical workers – an estimated 35% of the workforce – who are putting in long hours at their laptops, Zooming into conferences, scanning electronic documents, and collecting about the same pay as before the crisis.

2. (by extension) Alternative form of zoom; To communicate using video teleconferencing.

Noun

Zoom (plural Zooms)

1. A video conference using Zoom Video Communications.

   I have two Zooms tomorrow: one in the morning and another at noon.

2. (by extension) Alternative form of zoom; A video teleconference call.

Derived terms

• Zoom-bomb
• Zoom bomb
• Zoom bomber
• Zoom-bomber
• Zoom-bombing
• Zoom bombing
• Zoomed (adj.)
• zoomed (adj.)
• Zoom fatigue
• zoom (genericization of trademark)
• zooming (n.)
• Zooming (n.)
• Zoom raid
• Zoom raider
• Zoom-raiding
• Zoom raiding
• Zoom town

 

Anagrams

• Mozo, mozo

Dutch

Etymology

• (Gelderland) First attested as De Zoom in 1868. Derived from zoom (“edge, seam”). See also Dutch Low Saxon Zeum.
• (Flevoland) Derived from zoom (“edge, seam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zoːm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Zoom
• Rhymes: -oːm
• Homophone: zoom

Proper noun

Zoom n

1. A hamlet in Nunspeet, Gelderland, Netherlands
2. A neighbourhood of Lelystad, Flevoland, Netherlands

References

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “zoom”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎^[3] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English zoom.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Zoom m (strong, genitive Zooms, no plural)

1. (photography, film) zoom, augmentation of a view as with a camera lens

Declension

Declension of Zoom [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Zoom
genitive	eines	des	Zooms
dative	einem	dem	Zoom
accusative	einen	den	Zoom