different between zoom vs zoop

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; compare zap, zip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Interjection

zoop

1. (colloquial) Sound effect suggesting rapid motion.
   • 1989, Charles A. Murray, Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo, the race to the moon (page 223)

     "Let me show you how this damn stuff explodes in pure oxygen," Johnson said, and turned on the projector. Markley was "totally aghast" himself. "It just went ZOOP! It was unbelievable. The stuff burned like you couldn't imagine."

   • 1999, School Library Journal (volume 45, issues 1-6, page 180)

     On the day they play the Wild Things for the City Cup, he dons his gear (pulling on his underwear with a "zap" and his socks with a "zoop") and heads for the field.

   • 1999, Popular Photography (November 1999)

     And a bit more manly (or womanly) turn of a long tripod screw in a shallow tripod socket and, zoop, through the socket end goes the tripod screw, right into the camera works. And this can also happen with inadequate metal tripod sockets […]

Anagrams

• Pozo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?p

Verb

zoop

1. singular past indicative of zuipen