Zoom

English

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 as with a lens

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

Derived terms

• zoom in
• zoom lens
• zoom out
• zoomy

Descendants

• Dutch: zoomen
• German: zoomen

Thesaurus

acrobatics, aerobatics, ascend, aspire, ball the jack, banking, barrel, become airborne, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, brush, chandelle, claw skyward, climb, clip, crabbing, cut along, dive, diving, fishtailing, fleet, flit, float, fly, fly aloft, fly low, foot, gain altitude, glide, go fast, hang, highball, hoick, hover, kite, leave the ground, magnify, make knots, mount, nip, nose dive, outstrip the wind, plane, poise, pour it on, power dive, pull-up, pullout, pushdown, recede, rip, rolling, scorch, sideslip, sizzle, skim, soar, speed, spiral, spire, stall, storm along, stunting, sweep, tactical maneuvers, take off, tear, tear along, thunder along, volplane

Pronunciation

• IPA: /zuːm/, SAMPA: /zu:m/
• Rhymes: -uːm