zoom

See also: Zoom

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeia. The verb was attested in 1892, noun in 1918 and interjection in 1942.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zuːm/
  • Rhymes: -uːm

Noun

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 by varying the focal length of a lens

Translations

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Verb

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

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

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Interjection

zoom

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

  • IPA(key): /zoːm/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -oːm
  • Hyphenation: zoom

Noun

zoom m (plural zomen, diminutive zoompje n)

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

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /zoːm/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -oːm
  • Hyphenation: zoom
Verb

zoom

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

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /zuːm/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: zoom
Verb

zoom

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English zoom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zum/
  • Homophone: zooms
  • Hyphenation: zoom

Noun

zoom m (plural zooms)

  1. (photography) zoom

Derived terms

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zuːm/

Verb

zoom

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English zoom.

Noun

zoom m (invariable)

  1. (photography) zoom

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

zoom

  1. imperative of zoome

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English zoom.

Pronunciation

Noun

zoom m (plural zooms)

  1. zoom (augmentation of an image)
  2. (photography) zoom lens (lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed)

Spanish

Noun

zoom m (plural zooms)

  1. (photography) zoom
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