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zoom
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)
- 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
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
- 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
- Alternative letter-case form of Zoom
Derived terms
Descendants
- Dutch: zoomen
- Finnish: zoomata
- German: zoomen
Translations
Interjection
zoom
- Representing a humming sound
- Suggesting something moving quickly
- 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)
- To participate in a video teleconferencing call
Noun
zoom (plural zooms)
- 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)
- edge, border
- 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)
- 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
- first-person singular present indicative of zomen
- imperative of zomen
Pronunciation 2
- IPA(key): /zu?m/
- Hyphenation: zoom
Verb
zoom
- first-person singular present indicative of zoomen
- imperative of zoomen
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English zoom.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zum/
- Homophone: zooms
- Hyphenation: zoom
Noun
zoom m (plural zooms)
- (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
- singular imperative of zoomen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of zoomen
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English zoom.
Noun
zoom m (invariable)
- (photography) zoom
Related terms
- zoomare
- zoomata
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
zoom
- imperative of zoome
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- zum (rare)
Etymology
Borrowed from English zoom.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?z?/
Noun
zoom m (plural zooms)
- zoom (augmentation of an image)
- (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)
- (photography) zoom
Declension
Related terms
- zoomový
Spanish
Noun
zoom m (plural zooms)
- (photography) zoom
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coom
English
Etymology 1
Related to Icelandic kámugur.
Noun
coom (uncountable)
- soot, smut
- dust
- grease
Etymology 2
See come.
Verb
coom (third-person singular simple present cooms, present participle cooming, simple past and past participle coomed)
- Pronunciation spelling of come.
- 1838–1839, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Chapman and Hall (1839), chapter XLII, page 411:
- “Not a bit,” replied the Yorkshireman, extending his mouth from ear to ear. “There I lay, snoog in schoolmeasther’s bed long efther it was dark, and nobody coom nigh the pleace. ‘Weel!’ thinks I, ‘he’s got a pretty good start, and if he bean’t whoam by noo, he never will be; so you may coom as quick as you loike, and foind us reddy’—that is, you know, schoolmeasther might coom.”
- 1838–1839, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Chapman and Hall (1839), chapter XLII, page 411:
Etymology 3
Noun
coom (plural cooms)
- (Scotland) The wooden centering on which a bridge is built.
- (Scotland) Anything arched or vaulted.
Derived terms
- coom-ceiled
Anagrams
- COMO, Como, MOOC, MoCo, moco
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