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. DavisSynonyms
Examples 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.
Recent Examples on the WebJim Harrington, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
Tap a cluster for more info or to zoom into that area.
—Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024
Guillermo Cornejo Guillermo Cornejo, the brains behind Riders Share, zoomed into the entrepreneurial scene after a stint with big-name auto corporations.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
The company behind the money-losing Truth Social platform has zoomed well beyond what critics say is rational, as fans of former president Donald Trump keep pushing it higher.
—Elaine Kurtenbach, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
In a second photo, Brittany zoomed the camera in to show the redness and small bumps around her upper lip and on her chin.
—Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
Outside, a voice actor read from a script of what Siri would say as the men zoomed down the road in the imaginary car.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 3 Mar. 2024
Some zoom up there instantly; others stubbornly refuse to take wing until hours have passed.
—Molly Young, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
With the security of a classic narrative backbone—dead body turns up; detectives sort it out—French’s Murder Squad assembles new coalitions of novel parts: shifting points of view, patterned switches in time, narration that zooms closer in and further out.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2024
The paps were also there, with their zoom lenses primed for the money shots.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
The pictures are neo-futurist cityscapes in which modernist buildings appear to rush toward the viewer, simulating a running body’s headlong movement or a high-speed photographic zoom.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
There is a vast world of wildlife, and a digital zoom is better than nothing.
—Florence Ion / Gizmodo, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
Paparazzi need the most high-powered of zoom lenses to snag even the fuzziest of snaps.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
At 30x zoom, text becomes slightly softer at the edges but loses the inaccurate, oversharpened look captured by the previous firmware version.
—Paul Monckton, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Of its standard zoom peers, only the Tamron 28-75mm G2 (1:2.7) and Nikkor Z 24-120mm F4 S (1:2.6) offer larger macro magnification.
—PCMAG, 28 Mar. 2024
While starting her dance journey via a screen on zoom, Melissa is now choreographing for our class.
—Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024
Verb
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer performed Monday in San Diego and then zoomed back East and made a guest appearance (with fellow troubadour Maggie Rogers) at a show by country star Zach Bryan at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday night.
—Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
Tap a cluster for more info or to zoom into that area.
—Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024
Guillermo Cornejo Guillermo Cornejo, the brains behind Riders Share, zoomed into the entrepreneurial scene after a stint with big-name auto corporations.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
The company behind the money-losing Truth Social platform has zoomed well beyond what critics say is rational, as fans of former president Donald Trump keep pushing it higher.
—Elaine Kurtenbach, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
In a second photo, Brittany zoomed the camera in to show the redness and small bumps around her upper lip and on her chin.
—Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
Outside, a voice actor read from a script of what Siri would say as the men zoomed down the road in the imaginary car.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 3 Mar. 2024
Some zoom up there instantly; others stubbornly refuse to take wing until hours have passed.
—Molly Young, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
With the security of a classic narrative backbone—dead body turns up; detectives sort it out—French’s Murder Squad assembles new coalitions of novel parts: shifting points of view, patterned switches in time, narration that zooms closer in and further out.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
Noun
The zoom ring takes up most of the space here and is easy to find thanks to its ribbed plastic texture.
—PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2024
The paps were also there, with their zoom lenses primed for the money shots.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
The pictures are neo-futurist cityscapes in which modernist buildings appear to rush toward the viewer, simulating a running body’s headlong movement or a high-speed photographic zoom.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
There is a vast world of wildlife, and a digital zoom is better than nothing.
—Florence Ion / Gizmodo, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
Paparazzi need the most high-powered of zoom lenses to snag even the fuzziest of snaps.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
At 30x zoom, text becomes slightly softer at the edges but loses the inaccurate, oversharpened look captured by the previous firmware version.
—Paul Monckton, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Of its standard zoom peers, only the Tamron 28-75mm G2 (1:2.7) and Nikkor Z 24-120mm F4 S (1:2.6) offer larger macro magnification.
—PCMAG, 28 Mar. 2024
While starting her dance journey via a screen on zoom, Melissa is now choreographing for our class.
—Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024
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zoom
1 of 2 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 2 noun1
: an act or process of zooming
2
: a zooming sound
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