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English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Noun

zap (plural zaps)

1. (colloquial) A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy.
2. (colloquial) An electric shock.

   You might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry.

3. A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism.
   • 1998, Raymond A. Smith, Encyclopedia of AIDS

     Black AIDS activists were caught in the middle of a nearly yearlong series of zaps.

   • 2011, Michael Schiavi, Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo (page 84)

     When a zap at Brooklyn's Board of Education opened no dialogue on discrimination suffered by gay teachers, GAA targeted the BOE offices on April 13.

Translations

Verb

zap (third-person singular simple present zaps, present participle zapping, simple past and past participle zapped)

1. (intransitive) To make a zap sound.
2. To use a remote control to repeatedly change channels on a television.

   Synonyms: channel surf, channel hop

3. To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting.

   They spent the whole movie zapping bad guys into oblivion.

4. (US, military, slang, transitive) To kill; to eliminate.
   • 1966, U.S. News & World Report (volume 61, page 32)

     Says a U. S. officer: "We zapped the enemy, now we intend to stick around. […]

5. To damage (especially electronics) with electrostatic discharge.

   I think they zapped the processor.

6. To heat (something) in a microwave oven.

   If it's not warm in the middle; zap it some more.

7. To delete or discard (electronic media).

   They zapped a lot of files before realizing they had not backed up lately.

8. To further energize or charge (magnetic material).

   They zapped my motor's magnets.

Descendants

Translations

Interjection

zap!

1. Representing the sound or action of a zap.

   Then the computer went zap and I lost all my work.

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

zap

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From the last part of "WhatsApp".

Noun

zap m (usually uncountable, plural zaps)

1. WhatsApp, the messaging service

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: z??m, IPA^(key): /zu?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

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

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

Translations

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

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
7. Alternative letter-case form of Zoom

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Translations

Interjection

zoom

1. Representing a humming sound
2. Suggesting something moving quickly
3. Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase

Etymology 2

Genericization of the trademark Zoom, a video teleconferencing software.

Verb

zoom (third-person singular simple present zooms, present participle zooming, simple past and past participle zoomed)

1. To participate in a video teleconferencing call

Noun

zoom (plural zooms)

1. A video teleconferencing call.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Mozo, mozo

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch sôom, from Old Dutch *s?m, from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zo?m/
• Hyphenation: zoom
• Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

zoom m (plural zomen, diminutive zoompje n)

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

Derived terms

• Bergen op Zoom
• zomen

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English zoom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu?m/
• Hyphenation: zoom

Noun

zoom m (plural zooms)

1. zoom (augmentation of a view)

Related terms

• zoomen

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /zo?m/
• Hyphenation: zoom
• Rhymes: -o?m

Verb

zoom

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

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /zu?m/
• 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

• zoomer

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu?m/

Verb

zoom

1. singular imperative of zoomen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of zoomen

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English zoom.

Noun

zoom m (invariable)

1. (photography) zoom

Related terms

• zoomare
• zoomata

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

zoom

1. imperative of zoome

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• zum (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from English zoom.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?z?/

Noun

zoom m (plural zooms)

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

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from English zoom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu?m/

Noun

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

1. (photography) zoom

Declension

Related terms

• zoomový

Spanish

Noun

zoom m (plural zooms)

1. (photography) zoom