Zoomy vs Zooms - What's the difference?
zoomy | zooms |
(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}} (zoom)
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
As an adjective zoomy
is of something that goes zoom!As a verb zooms is
third-person singular of zoom.zoomy
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Adjective
(er)zooms
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----zoom
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- prices zoomed