2021-04-01 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด Z – zoom

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2021-04-01

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด Z – zoom

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง zoom = ‘ZOOM’

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

'Zoom'

Many, many people have over the past few weeks found themselves uttering the word zoom far more often than had been their wont,

as a web conferencing tool of this name has become widely adopted.

Intruders are hijacking Zoom calls with noise and gross images

— here’s how to avoid becoming a victim of ‘zoombombing’
— (headline) CNBC (cnbc.com), 2 Apr. 2020

Zoom, outside of its corporate name,

has a number of meanings as a verb,

including “to move with a loud low hum or buzz” (its oldest meaning),

“to go speedily,” “to increase sharply,” and

“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” (said of an airplane).

Should you find yourself in the waiting room of a Zoom meeting,

with a surfeit of both time on your hands

and goodwill from your fellow meeting participants,

you may easily dispose of each of these things

by providing an explanation of how it was common for usage guides

in the mid-20th century to advise against using zoom

for any rapid movementthat was not upward in nature

(based on the idea that

it should be restricted to the aviation meaning given above).

Aside from its meanings

connected with sound and camera,

zoom, originally an aviation term,

denotes rapid upward movement.

Both the following sentences are therefore incorrect:

“Melville zoomed down the incline in 2:15.2, a full second ahead of Tommy Burns of Middlebury”; “At least twelve large hawks are making their homes atop city skyscrapers and zooming down to snatch pigeons.”
— Theodore Bernstein, The Careful Writer, 1965

The admonitions of long-ago usage guides notwithstanding,

you may now safely apply zoom to a variety of settings,

as in ‘this car that is going really fast,’ and

‘this meeting that could have been an email.’

Dictionary of Problem Words in English

zoom

As a term in aeronautics, zoom applies only to upward movement.

Through usage, it now refers also to movement over a level course

(The motorcycle zoomed along the highway),

but it is nonstandard when applied to downward movement.

Use swooped in a sentence such as

“The kingfisher zoomed

down on its prey.”