Zoom vs Unique - What's the difference?
zoom | unique |
a humming noise from something moving very fast
a quick ascent
a big increase
an augmentation of a view as with a lens
to move fast with a humming noise
to fly an airplane straight up
to move rapidly
to go up sharply
to change the focal length of a zoom lens
(used with in]] or [[zoom out, out ) to manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it
(not comparable) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
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Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
Particular, characteristic.
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(proscribed) Of a rare quality, unusual.
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A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled.
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As nouns the difference between zoom and unique
is that zoom is zoom, augmentation of a view as with a camera lens while unique is a thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled.As an adjective unique is
(not comparable) being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.zoom
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- prices zoomed
Derived terms
* zoom in * zoom lens * zoom out * zoomyDescendants
* Dutch: (l) * German: (l)Anagrams
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique . The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}
Usage notes
The comparative and superlative forms more unique'' and ''most unique'', as well as the use of ''unique'' with modifiers as in ''fairly unique'' and ''very unique , are sometimes proscribed, with the reasoning that either something is unique or it is not.Synonyms
(checksyns) * one of a kind * sui generis * singularDerived terms
* uniquenessNoun
(en noun)- The phoenix, the unique of birds.
