Zoom
See also: zoom
English
editEtymology
editFrom Zoom, a videoconferencing software by Zoom Video Communications; renamed as such (from Saasbee) in May 2012 by Jim Scheinman after the American children's book Zoom City (1998) by Thacher Hurd for ostensibly encapsulating creativity, happiness and exploration. Scheinman had "been saving the name Zoom for a long time."[1]
Verb
editZoom (third-person singular simple present Zooms, present participle Zooming, simple past and past participle Zoomed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software.
- 2020 April 26, Robert Reich, “Covid-19 pandemic shines a light on a new kind of class divide and its inequalities”, in The Guardian[3]:
- These are professional, managerial, and technical workers – an estimated 35% of the workforce – who are putting in long hours at their laptops, Zooming into conferences, scanning electronic documents, and collecting about the same pay as before the crisis.
- (by extension) Alternative form of zoom (“to participate in a video teleconferencing call”).
Noun
editZoom (plural Zooms)
- A videoconference using Zoom.
- I have two Zooms tomorrow: one in the morning and another at noon.
- (by extension) Alternative form of zoom (“a video teleconference call.”)
- (informal, genericization) A video teleconference service or website.
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editDutch
editEtymology
edit- (Gelderland) First attested as De Zoom in 1868. Derived from zoom (“edge, seam”). See also Dutch Low Saxon Zeum.
- (Flevoland) Derived from zoom (“edge, seam”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editZoom n
- A hamlet in Nunspeet, Gelderland, Netherlands
- A neighbourhood of Lelystad, Flevoland, Netherlands
References
editGerman
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editAudio: (file)
Noun
editZoom m (strong, genitive Zooms, no plural)
- (photography, film) zoom, augmentation of a view as with a camera lens
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