zoom n 1: a rapid rise [syn: rapid climb, rapid growth, zoom] 2: the act of rising upward into the air [syn: soar, zoom] v 1: move along very quickly [syn: zoom, zoom along, whizz, whizz along] 2: move with a low humming noise 3: rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yen" [syn: soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom]

zoom I. verb Etymology: imitative Date: 1903 intransitive verb 1. a. to move with a loud low hum or buzz b. to go speedily ; zip <cars zooming by on the highway> 2. of an airplane to climb for a short time at an angle greater than that which can be maintained in steady flight so that the machine is carried upward at the expense of stored kinetic energy 3. a. to focus a camera or microscope on an object using a zoom lens so that the object's apparent distance from the observer changes — often used with in or out b. focus, zero — used with in <trying to zoom in on the cause of these problems> 4. to increase sharply <retail sales zoomed> transitive verb to cause to zoom II. noun Date: 1917 1. a. an act or process of zooming; especially a sharp upward movement b. an image created by zooming 2. a zooming sound 3. a means of producing an enlarged image (as in a camera); specifically zoom lens

zoom
v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. move quickly, esp. with a buzzing sound.
2 a intr. cause an aeroplane to mount at high speed and a steep angle. b tr. cause (an aeroplane) to do this.
3 a intr. (of a camera) close up rapidly from a long shot to a close-up. b tr. cause (a lens or camera) to do this.
--n.
1 an aeroplane's steep climb.
2 a zooming camera shot.
Phrases and idioms:
zoom lens a lens allowing a camera to zoom by varying the focal length.
Etymology: imit.

zoom (zooms, zooming, zoomed) 1. If you zoom somewhere, you go there very quickly. (INFORMAL) We zoomed through the gallery... = speed VERB: V prep/adv 2. If prices or sales zoom, they increase greatly in a very short time. The economy shrank and inflation zoomed... = soar VERB: V 3. A zoom is the same as a zoom lens. N-COUNT

zoom zu:m v. & n. --v. 1 intr. move quickly, esp. with a buzzing sound. 2 a intr. cause an aeroplane to mount at high speed and a steep angle. b tr. cause (an aeroplane) to do this. 3 a intr. (of a camera) close up rapidly from a long shot to a close-up. b tr. cause (a lens or camera) to do this. --n. 1 an aeroplane's steep climb. 2 a zooming camera shot. øzoom lens a lens allowing a camera to zoom by varying the focal length. [imit.]

73 Moby Thesaurus words for "zoom": acrobatics, aerobatics, ascend, aspire, ball the jack, banking, barrel, become airborne, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, brush, chandelle, claw skyward, climb, clip, crabbing, cut along, dive, diving, fishtailing, fleet, flit, float, fly, fly aloft, fly low, foot, gain altitude, glide, go fast, hang, highball, hoick, hover, kite, leave the ground, magnify, make knots, mount, nip, nose dive, outstrip the wind, plane, poise, pour it on, power dive, pull-up, pullout, pushdown, recede, rip, rolling, scorch, sideslip, sizzle, skim, soar, speed, spiral, spire, stall, storm along, stunting, sweep, tactical maneuvers, take off, tear, tear along, thunder along, volplane,

zoom XScreenSaver(6x) XScreenSaver(6x) NAME zoom - wander around magnified desktop SYNOPSIS zoom [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color] [-background color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install] [-visual visual] [-delay usecs] [-lenses] [-pixwidth pixels] [-pixheight pixels] [-pixspacex pixels] [-pixspacey pixels] [-lensoffsetx pixels] [-lensoffsety pixels] DESCRIPTION The zoom program takes an image, magnifies it, and scrolls around it, fatbits-style. The image that it manipulates will be grabbed from the portion of the screen underlying the window, or from the system's video input, or from a random file on disk, as indicated by the grabDesktopImages, grabVide- oFrames, and chooseRandomImages options in the ~/.xscreensaver file; see xscreensaver-demo(1) for more details. OPTIONS zoom accepts the following options: -window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default. -root Draw on the root window. -mono If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display. -install Install a private colormap for the window. -visual visual Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. -delay microseconds Slow it down. -lenses Instead of doing magnification we just copy an offset region from the original image. If lensoffsetx < pixwidth (and simi- larly for Y) then consecutive regions will overlap, giving the effect of looking through an array of lenses. -pixwidth pixels Width of the magnified pixels. -pixheight pixels Height of the magnified pixels. -pixspacex pixels Amount of black space between magnified pixels (X direction). -pixspacey pixels Amount of black space between magnified pixels (Y direction). -lensoffsetx pixels Distance in X direction between consecutive copied regions (only effective when -lenses used). -lensoffsety pixels Distance in Y direction between consecutive copied regions (only effective when -lenses used). ENVIRONMENT DISPLAY to get the default host and display number. XENVIRONMENT to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. SEE ALSO X(1), xscreensaver(1), xscreensaver-demo(1), xscreensaver-getimage(1) COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2000 by James Macnicol. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any pur- pose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No repre- sentations are made about the suitability of this software for any pur- pose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. AUTHOR James Macnicol , 20-Nov-2000. Much code was shamelessly stolen from the spotlight hack and a few others. X Version 11 4.21 (01-Mar-2005) XScreenSaver(6x)

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