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Zoom vs Zoo - What's the difference?

zoom | zoo |

As nouns the difference between zoom and zoo

is that zoom is zoom, augmentation of a view as with a camera lens while zoo is zoo.

zoom

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a humming noise from something moving very fast
  • a quick ascent
  • a big increase
  • an augmentation of a view as with a lens
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to move fast with a humming noise
  • to fly an airplane straight up
  • to move rapidly
  • to go up sharply
  • prices zoomed
  • 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
  • Derived terms

    * zoom in * zoom lens * zoom out * zoomy

    Descendants

    * Dutch: (l) * German: (l)

    Anagrams

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    zoo

    English

    (wikipedia zoo)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A park where live animals are exhibited.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
  • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] , passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.}}
  • (label) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
  • Derived terms

    * like feeding time at the zoo * morning zoo * particle zoo * petting zoo * zoo format