zoom

noun

1. A humming noise from something moving very fast.

   “the zoom of traffic”

2. (figuratively)A quick ascent.
3. (figuratively)A big increase.
4. An augmentation of a view, by varying the focal length of a lens, or digitally.

   “What's the zoom like on your camera?”

5. A video teleconferencing call.

   “Then, later that day, I logged onto a zoom call and my mother and I set up our yoga mats in the living room, as we had been doing a couple of times a week during the pandemic.”

6. A videoconference using Zoom.

   “I have two Zooms tomorrow: one in the morning and another at noon.”

7. (alt-of, alternative, broadly)Alternative form of zoom (“a video teleconference call.”).
8. (informal)A video teleconference service or website.

verb

1. To move fast with a humming noise.

   “We zoomed along the highway.”

   “[…] and it was strange sitting in their brand-new comfortable car and hearing them talk of exams as we zoomed smoothly into town.”

2. To zoom climb.
3. To move rapidly.
4. To go up sharply.

   “prices zoomed”

5. To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
6. To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.

   “to zoom in or zoom out”

7. (transitive)To check someone out; to investigate someone that one is interested in.

   “(Who's zoomin' who?) / Take another look and tell me, baby / (Who's zoomin' who?) / Who's zoomin' who? / (Who's zoomin' who?) / Now the fish jumped off the hook, didn't I, baby? / (Who's zoomin' who?) / Yeah”

   “"It boggles my mind what kind of mentality is at work there." He pointed to two recent issues of the magazine that featured cover stories were about Whitney Houston and Luther Vandross, two pop music icons whose sexual orientations have been widely speculated on in Black lesbian and gay communities. "It makes you wonder if it's an insult to the intelligence of Essence’s lesbian and gay leadership," Cunningham said. "Who's really zooming whom here?"”

8. To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
9. (ambitransitive)To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software.

   “Whether you’re Zooming it in or not sitting down on the job, here’s how to do it right.”

   “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.”

10. (alt-of, alternative, broadly)Alternative form of zoom (“to participate in a video teleconferencing call”).

intj

1. Representing a humming sound

   “Makowsky was playing the Bassgeige. Zoom... zoom-zoom.... The rest of the orchestra would join in presently.”

2. Suggesting something moving quickly

   “I would dance a few light fantastic steps to show which way the wind lay, and zoom! Like a breeze I was on the piano stool and doing a velocity exercise.”

3. Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase