zoom

1. (aviation) To zoom climb.

2. (photography) To change the focal length of a zoom lens.

3. (transitive) To check someone out; to investigate someone that one is interested in.Examples: ""It boggles my mind what kind of mentality is at work there." He pointed to two recent issues of the magazine that featured cover stories were about Whitney Houston and Luther Vandross, two pop music icons whose sexual orientations have been widely speculated on in Black lesbian and gay communities. "It makes you wonder if it's an insult to the intelligence of Essence’s lesbian and gay leadership," Cunningham said. "Who's really zooming whom here?""transitive

1. (ambitransitive) To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software.Examples: "Whether you’re Zooming it in or not sitting down on the job, here’s how to do it right."; "These are professional, managerial, and technical workers – an estimated 35% of the workforce – who are putting in long hours at their laptops, Zooming into conferences, scanning electronic documents, and collecting about the same pay as before the crisis."ambitransitive

2. (by extension) Alternative form of zoom (“to participate in a video teleconferencing call”).alt-ofalternativebroadly

1. (by extension) Alternative form of zoom (“a video teleconference call.”).alt-ofalternativebroadly

2. (informal, genericization) A video teleconference service or website.informal