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Zoon vs Zoop - What's the difference?

zoon | zoop |

As a noun zoön

is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As an interjection zoop is

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

zoon

English

Alternative forms

*

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (biology):
  • # An animal which is the sole product of a single egg.
  • # Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.

    • Quotations

    * 1864 , (Herbert Spencer), (Principles of Biology) , page 205, §?73 (1868 reprint; D. Appleton & Co.) *: [… A] zoological individual is constituted either by any such single animal as a mammal or bird, which may properly claim the title of a zoon'' , or by any such group of animals as the numerous ''Medusæ'' that have been developed from the same egg, which are to be severally distinguished as ''zooids .

    Antonyms

    * (an animal which is the sole product of a single egg) zooid (Webster 1913)

    References

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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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