zoomed; zooming; zooms
1
a
: to move with a loud low hum or buzz
b
: to go speedily : zip
cars zooming by on the highway
2
of an airplane
: to climb for a short time at an angle greater than that which can be maintained in steady flight so that the machine is carried upward at the expense of stored kinetic energy
3
4
: to increase sharply
retail sales zoomed
: to cause to zoom
Zoomed; Zooming; Zooms
: to use the Zoom service to hold or participate in online meetings with enabled video support
… last week I Zoomed with friends in Ireland that I hadn't talked to in years …—
Megan Schuster and Michael Surrey
Megan Schuster and Michael SurreyIn the other room, while I was slacking off, my wife would be Zooming with her coworkers …—Andrew Hamm
Andrew HammThere's little doubt students who spend their summer Zooming with state legislators, journalists and commissioners are going to be future leaders.—Joyce M. Davis
Joyce M. DavisExamples of zoom in a Sentence
Verb (1)
They got in the car and zoomed away.
The group of bicycle racers zoomed past.
After her first successful cases she zoomed to the top of her profession.
Housing sales have zoomed in recent months.
Noun
The camera was equipped with a zoom.
The truck went by with a zoom.
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Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2025
The focal range is too short to catch action in the outfield, though to be fair a longer zoom like the FE 100-400mm GM is a better match for field sports.
—PC Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
PC Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
From some 200 miles (300 kilometers) up, the phone's 48-megapixel camera, with a simulated optical zoom, brought out the finer textures of ice sheets, clouds, water, and land formations.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Apr. 2025
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Verb
Hubble zoomed into a small portion of the nebula that is only four light-years across (the approximate distance between our sun and the neighboring Alpha Centauri star system).
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2025
The focal range is too short to catch action in the outfield, though to be fair a longer zoom like the FE 100-400mm GM is a better match for field sports.
—PC Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
The latter even has a zoom option for freeze frames.
—PC Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
From some 200 miles (300 kilometers) up, the phone's 48-megapixel camera, with a simulated optical zoom, brought out the finer textures of ice sheets, clouds, water, and land formations.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Apr. 2025
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“Zoom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zoom. Accessed 8 May. 2025.
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zoom
1 of 3 verb1
: to speed along with a loud low hum or buzz
cars zooming down the highway
2
: to gain altitude quickly
the rocket zoomed into the sky
zoom
2 of 3 noun1
: an act or process of zooming
2
: a zooming sound
Zoom
3 of 3 verb
: to use the Zoom service to hold or participate in online meetings with enabled video support
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