zoom
English
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editEtymology 1
editUncertain. The verb was attested in 1892, noun in 1918 and interjection in 1942. Apparently related to Scots soom (“to buzz, hum”), dialectal English and Scots soom, swoom, sweem (“to spin or twirl at high speed”). Compare also dialectal English sweem (“to swoon, become dizzy or faint”).
Noun
editzoom (plural zooms)
- A humming noise from something moving very fast.
- the zoom of traffic
- (figurative) A quick ascent.
- (figurative) A big increase.
- An augmentation of a view, by varying the focal length of a lens, or digitally.
- What's the zoom like on your camera?
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Verb
editzoom (third-person singular simple present zooms, present participle zooming, simple past and past participle zoomed)
- To move fast with a humming noise.
- We zoomed along the highway.
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
- […] and it was strange sitting in their brand-new comfortable car and hearing them talk of exams as we zoomed smoothly into town.
- (aviation) To zoom climb.
- To move rapidly.
- To go up sharply.
- prices zoomed
- (photography) To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
- To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
- (transitive) To check someone out; to investigate someone that one is interested in.
- 1990 December 16, Chris Nealon, quoting Al Cunningham, “Essence Magazine Agrees To Run Gay Advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 13:
- "It boggles my mind what kind of mentality is at work there." He pointed to two recent issues of the magazine that featured cover stories were about Whitney Houston and Luther Vandross, two pop music icons whose sexual orientations have been widely speculated on in Black lesbian and gay communities. "It makes you wonder if it's an insult to the intelligence of Essence’s lesbian and gay leadership," Cunningham said. "Who's really zooming whom here?"
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editDescendants
edit- → Dutch: zoomen
- → Finnish: zoomata
- → French: zoomer
- → German: zoomen
- → Italian: zoomare
- → Norwegian Bokmål: zoome
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Interjection
editzoom
- 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
- 1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, Grove Press, published 1962, page 244:
- 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
Etymology 2
editGenericization of the trademark Zoom, a video teleconferencing software.
Verb
editzoom (third-person singular simple present zooms, present participle zooming, simple past and past participle zoomed)
- To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
Noun
editzoom (plural zooms)
- A video teleconferencing call.
- 2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Then, later that day, I logged onto a zoom call and my mother and I set up our yoga mats in the living room, as we had been doing a couple of times a week during the pandemic.
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editDutch
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle Dutch sôom, from Old Dutch *sōm, from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editzoom m (plural zomen, diminutive zoompje n)
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editDescendants
editEtymology 2
editPronunciation
editNoun
editzoom m (plural zooms)
- zoom (augmentation of a view)
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editEtymology 3
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation 1
editVerb
editzoom
- inflection of zomen:
Pronunciation 2
editVerb
editzoom
- inflection of zoomen:
French
editEtymology
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editNoun
editzoom m (plural zooms)
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editFurther reading
edit- “zoom”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
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editVerb
editzoom
Italian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English zoom.
Noun
editzoom m (invariable)
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editNorwegian Bokmål
editVerb
editzoom
- imperative of zoome
Portuguese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English zoom.
Pronunciation
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Noun
editzoom m (plural zooms)
- zoom (augmentation of an image)
- (photography) zoom lens (lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed)
Romanian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English zoom.
Noun
editzoom n (plural zoomuri)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) zoom | zoomul | (niște) zoomuri | zoomurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) zoom | zoomului | (unor) zoomuri | zoomurilor |
vocative | zoomule | zoomurilor |
Slovak
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editzoom m inan (genitive singular zoomu, declension pattern of dub)
- (photography) zoom
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editSpanish
editNoun
editzoom m (plural zooms)
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