单词 | zooming |
释义 | zoomingn. 1. The action or an instance of making a buzzing, humming, or droning sound, esp. as a result of moving at speed; the action or an instance of moving with, or as if with, such a sound. Π 1892 ‘Q’ I saw Three Ships i Amid..the scraping and zooming of the instruments, string and reed. 1921 S. Desmond Gods i. 3 The drone of his father's voice came to him where he knelt, losing itself in the zooming of the bee. 1945 D. Friend Diary 7 Feb. (2003) II. 207 The whole night was hideous with roarings and zoomings of planes landing and taking off. 1981 Kenosha (Wisconsin) News 1 July 10/1 We can hardly wait for..the zooming of the Roman candles that suddenly make the sky ablaze. 2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 May v. 12/1 The zooming of cars can be heard throughout the city. 2. Aeronautics. The action of making a steep climb while flying at high speed. Cf. zoom v.1 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > ascent or rate of ascent > sudden steep zoom1917 zooming1917 1917 Daily Mail 19 July 4/5 ‘Zooming’ is..frequently the only means of avoiding an obstacle when flying low. 1971 Drama Rev. 15 129 Sudden halts, followed by more or less prolonged zooming, dives, loops. 1999 J. T. Lowry Performance Light Aircraft ix. 300 If one neglects the dissipative effect of drag, zooming merely trades kinetic energy for potential energy. 3. Cinematography and Photography. The action of changing smoothly from a long shot with a lens, camera, etc., to a close-up or vice versa; the action of increasing or decreasing magnification of an image smoothly and quickly; cf. zoom v.1 3, 4. Frequently with in, out. Often attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > zooming zooming1934 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > camera movements > [noun] panning1917 pan1922 panoraming1927 camera movement1929 zooming1934 tilting1938 tilt1959 whip-pan1960 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > [noun] > manner of flash-lighting1959 shutter priority1974 snap-shooting1979 zooming2005 1934 U.S. Patent 1,955,850 6/1 By reason of the fact that our invention provides for universal focus, it is possible to have the feature of varying the size of the subject or object in the picture, i. e., what is known in the moving picture art as ‘zooming’. 1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production iii. 34 (caption) The zoom angle can be adjusted anywhere in the zooming range. 1974 Hist. Teacher 7 544 Zooming in serves to pinpoint features of particular interest, while zooming out can establish the context of what may appear to be an isolated object. 1989 Grattan Direct Catal. Spring–Summer 898/1 Tasco 7–15×35 binoculars. Featuring zooming lever for smooth action. 2005 Digital Photographer No. 31. 105/1 Zooming in reveals superb detail, which you'd expect from a camera with this many image sensors. 2015 New Yorker 23 Feb. 135/3 The Digital Crown, a device for zooming that compensated for the difficulty of pinching or spreading fingers on a tiny screen, was ordered up by the studio. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). zoomingadj. That zooms (in various senses of zoom v.1). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [adjective] > zooming zooming1904 zoomable1972 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving swiftly with or as with sound skirring1573 whizzing1589 zooming1904 whooshing1976 society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [adjective] > sudden steep ascent zooming1904 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > technical factors > [adjective] > manner of altering focal length zooming1904 1904 W. B. Nesbit in Chicago Sunday Tribune 12 June (Comic Suppl.) 2/1 There cometh upon the zephyr of the evening A zooming zip that bodeth ill for humanity. For it telleth that the mosquito hath girded on its Armor [etc.]. 1920 Flight 2 Sept. 963/2 Naturally, steep climbing or zooming turns are a different matter altogether. 1943 Sci. & Mech. Spring 18/1 Zooming demands for technical books of many kinds..bear witness to the truth of that ancient copy-book maxim, ‘Knowledge is power’. 1986 O. P. Adisa Bake-Face & Other Guava Stories 78 His hands reach out to feel the air currents from the zooming cars. 2011 Atlantic Monthly June 42/2 The zooming aerial perspectives, the gulfs of heavenly light over smokestack New Jersey. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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