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Zolly vs Colly - What's the difference?

zolly | colly |

As nouns the difference between zolly and colly

is that zolly is dolly zoom while colly is soot.

As an adjective colly is

black as coal.

As a verb colly is

to make black, as with coal.

zolly

English

Noun

(zollies)
  • dolly zoom
  • * 2001 , Marcie Begleiter, From word to image: storyboarding and the filmmaking process
    • Another, though less common, use of depth of field can be found in the zolly , or zoom-with-a-counter-dolly shot. In this camera move, the characters or object being viewed will often stay the same relative scale while the lens length changes.
  • * 2005 , Wendy Tumminello, Exploring Storyboarding (page 51)
    • In Jaws , Spielberg used the zolly effect when Brody witnesses a little boy eaten by the shark. Brody is sitting on the beach and as the camera dollies toward him, the zoom lens is pulled back.

    colly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (British, dialect) black as coal
    • -

    Verb

  • (archaic) to make black, as with coal
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Thou hast not collied thy face enough.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Brief as the lighting in the collied night.
  • *

    • Noun

    (collies)
  • (British, dialect) Soot.
    • (Burton)
  • (British, dialect) A blackbird
  • (dated)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1833 , author=William Craig Brownlee , title=The Whigs of Scotland: Or, The Last of the Stuarts, vol. 2 , page=30 citation , passage=Can a Whig lick the feet o' the tyrant wha usurps oor Lord's throne, and accept o' ane indulgence frae him, hurled to him as a bane to a colly dog , binding himself to think as he thinks, and to preach as he wulls it; and to flatter tyranny in church and state, to win a paltry boon!}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1847 , author=Thomas Miller , title=The Boy's Country Book , page=80 citation , passage=On the moors and mountains of Scotland the shepherd sends out his colly with the sheep, far out of his sight, conscious that when he sets out to look for them, they will be found herded safely together.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1861 , author=Francis Galton , title=Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860 citation , page=139 , passage=Colly dog's early training is a rude one, but I think that it is mutual, and that the shepherd picks up a good deal of dog during the process. , }}

    See also

    * collywobbles