zoom
See also: Zoom
English
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Etymology
Onomatopoeia. The verb was attested in 1892, noun in 1918 and interjection in 1942.
Pronunciation
Noun
zoom (plural zooms)
- a humming noise from something moving very fast
- a quick ascent
- a big increase
- an augmentation of a view
- by varying the focal length of a lens
- by scaling its digital representation
Translations
humming noise from something moving very fast
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quick ascent
big increase
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augmentation of a view
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Verb
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
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
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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Interjection
zoom
- Representing a humming sound
- 1918, Annie Vivanti Chartres, The Outrage, page 196:
- Makowsky was playing the Bassgeige. Zoom... zoom-zoom.... The rest of the orchestra would join in presently.
- Suggesting something moving quickly
- 1961, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, page 225:
- I would dance a few light fantastic steps to show which way the wind lay, and zoom! Like a breeze I was on the piano stool and doing a velocity exercise.
- Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch sôom, from Old Dutch *sōm, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).
Pronunciation
Noun
zoom m (plural zomen, diminutive zoompje n)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
zoom m (plural zooms)
- zoom (augmentation of a view)
Related terms
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation 1
Verb
zoom
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of zomen
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of zomen
Pronunciation 2
Verb
zoom
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of zoomen
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of zoomen
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
zoom m (plural zooms)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “zoom”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
Verb
zoom
- (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of zoomen.
- (colloquial) (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of zoomen.
Italian
Etymology
Noun
zoom m (uncountable)
Related terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
zoom
- imperative of zoome
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- zum (rare)
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
zoom m (plural s)
- zoom (augmentation of an image)
- (photography) zoom lens (lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed)
Slovak
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
zoom m (genitive singular zoomu, declension pattern of dub)
- (photography) zoom
Declension
Declension of zoom
Related terms
Spanish
Noun
zoom m (plural zooms)
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