different between zoom vs vroom

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

English

Etymology

Imitative

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v?u?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /v?um/, /v??m/
• Rhymes: -u?m, -?m

Interjection

vroom

1. The sound of an engine revving up.

   I never saw my uncle’s Ferrari, but I could always hear it going vroom as it flew past by my house.

Translations

Noun

vroom (plural vrooms)

1. The sound of an engine revving up.
   • 2003, Los Angeles Magazine (volume 48, number 2, page 52)

     Our ears are assaulted with the screeching of tires, the crashing of trash cans, the exaggerated vrooms of a revving engine.

Verb

vroom (third-person singular simple present vrooms, present participle vrooming, simple past and past participle vroomed)

1. (informal) To move with great speed; to zoom.

See also

• putt putt

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vr?me (“firm, upright”), an adjective derived from the noun vr?me (“benefit, use”), from Old Dutch *fruma, from Proto-Germanic *frumô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vro?m/
• Hyphenation: vroom
• Rhymes: -o?m

Adjective

vroom (comparative vromer, superlative vroomst)

1. pious, devout

   Synonym: godvruchtig

Inflection

Derived terms

• vroomheid