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Zoom vs Zoop - What's the difference?

zoom | zoop |

As a noun zoom

is a humming noise from something moving very fast.

As a verb zoom

is to move fast with a humming noise.

As an interjection zoop is

{{cx|colloquial|lang=en}} Sound effect suggesting rapid motion.|lang=en

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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    zoop

    English

    Interjection

    (en-intj)
  • * 1989 , Charles A. Murray, ?Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo, the race to the moon (page 223)
    • "Let me show you how this damn stuff explodes in pure oxygen," Johnson said, and turned on the projector. Markley was "totally aghast" himself. "It just went ZOOP ! It was unbelievable. The stuff burned like you couldn't imagine."
  • * 1999 , School Library Journal (volume 45, issues 1-6, page 180)
    • On the day they play the Wild Things for the City Cup, he dons his gear (pulling on his underwear with a "zap" and his socks with a "zoop ") and heads for the field.
  • * 1999 , Popular Photography (November 1999)
    • And a bit more manly (or womanly) turn of a long tripod screw in a shallow tripod socket and, zoop , through the socket end goes the tripod screw, right into the camera works. And this can also happen with inadequate metal tripod sockets
  • * 2010 , Carolyn Godschild Miller, Soulmates
    • She'd tell me about one guy she'd kind of strung along without really meaning to, and zoop ! Some of the glamour I'd been seeing in her would just vanish. Then she started in on the next one and again—zoop! Smaller still!
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