A humming noise from something moving very fast.
the zoom of traffic
A video teleconferencing call.
Then, later that day, I logged onto a zoom call and my mother and I set up our yoga mats in the living room, as we had been doing a couple of times a week during the pandemic.
A videoconference using Zoom.
I have two Zooms tomorrow: one in the morning and another at noon.
To move fast with a humming noise.
We zoomed along the highway.
Representing a humming sound
Makowsky was playing the Bassgeige. Zoom... zoom-zoom.... The rest of the orchestra would join in presently.
Suggesting something moving quickly
I would dance a few light fantastic steps to show which way the wind lay, and zoom! Like a breeze I was on the piano stool and doing a velocity exercise.
Uncertain. The verb was first attested c. 1892, as a noun in 1918 and as an interjection in 1942. Apparently related to Scots soom (“to buzz, hum”), dialectal English and Scots soom, swoom, sweem (“to...
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To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software.
Whether you’re Zooming it in or not sitting down on the job, here’s how to do it right.
Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase