zoom

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

• IPA^(key): /zuːm/
• Rhymes: -uːm

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
   1. by varying the focal length of a lens
   2. by scaling its digital representation

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

• Dutch: zoomen
• Finnish: zoomata
• German: zoomen

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

• Mozo, mozo

From Middle Dutch sôom, from Old Dutch *sōm, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).

• IPA^(key): /zoːm/

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• Rhymes: -oːm
• Hyphenation: zoom

zoom m (plural zomen, diminutive zoompje n)

1. edge, border
2. hem (border of a cloth that is turned around and stitched)

• Bergen op Zoom

See the etymology of the main entry.

• IPA^(key): /zoːm/

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• Rhymes: -oːm
• Hyphenation: zoom

zoom

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

• IPA^(key): /zuːm/

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• Hyphenation: zoom

zoom

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

Borrowed from English zoom.

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

zoom m (plural zooms)

1. (photography) zoom

• zoomer

• “zoom” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /zuːm/

zoom

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

Borrowed from English zoom.

zoom m (invariable)

1. (photography) zoom

• zoomare
• zoomata

zoom

1. imperative of zoome

• zum (rare)

Borrowed from English zoom.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈzũ/

zoom m (plural zooms)

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

Borrowed from English zoom.

• IPA^(key): /zuːm/

zoom m (genitive singular zoomu, declension pattern of dub)

1. (photography) zoom

• zoomový

zoom m (plural zooms)

1. (photography) zoom