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Zoomy vs Zooms - What's the difference?

zoomy | zooms |

As an adjective zoomy

is of something that goes zoom!

As a verb zooms is

third-person singular of zoom.

zoomy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (childish) of something that goes zoom!
  • *{{quote-book
  • , title=Househusband , author=Ad Hudler , year=2004 , page=284 , passage=We play a game she calls zoomy rocket, which usually draws some nasty maternal stares.}}
  • *{{quote-journal
  • , journal=Kiplinger's Personal Finance? , year=Dec 1970 , volume=24 , number=12 , page=6 , passage=Zoomy little race cars
  • (mechanics) of something that looks like it would go zoom: sleek, speedy, streamlined
  • :zoomy but faded paint jobs
  • *{{quote-journal
  • , journal=Popular Mechanics , year=May 1992 , page=39 , passage=In our recent visits to the Frankfurt and Tokyo auto shows, we saw the zoomy shapes we expect at major shows.}}
  • *{{quote-journal
  • , journal=Car and Driver , year=2007 , page=59 , volume=52 , passage=Does the zoomy new look of the TT [automobile] equate with a corresponding improvement in performance?}}
  • (slang) Stylish, as a zoomy car, or as someone who looks like they would drive a zoomy car
  • *{{quote-book
  • , title=The circle home , author=Edward Hoagland , year=1960 , page=191 , passage=He caught a downtown bus and felt real good, real zoomy . }}
  • *{{quote-book
  • , title=Getting into fashion , author=Melissa Sones , year=1984 , page=237 , passage=Her "mod zoomy' little showcases," as she describes her boutiques, are as mod and ' zoomy as Johnson herself.}}
  • (photography) Obviously characteristic of a zoom lens
  • :relies upon zoomy close-ups
  • :wobbly, zoomy , headachey shots
  • *{{quote-journal
  • , journal=American anthropologist , year=1977 , volume=79 , page=760 , passage=However, the photography is at moments too poorly exposed, too zoomy , and the camera positioned too closely, for the footage to be useful}}

    zooms

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (zoom)
  • Anagrams

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    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)

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