zoom out

World English Dictionary

zoom out

—vb
1.	photog, films, television to decrease rapidly the magnification of the image of a distant object by means of a zoom lens
2.	to consider the essential points, rather than the details of a subject

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zoom out definition

in.
to lose control. : I nearly zoomed out when I got the news.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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zoom (so) out definition

tv.
to impress someone. : Freddie is trying to zoom out Tiffany again.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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"Guided by emotion and empathy, working through ritual and repetition, television's core vocabulary reflects its role as a therapeutic voice ministering to the open wounds of the psyche. As a "close-up" medium whose dramatic and social locus is the home, television addresses the inner life by minimizing the heroic while maximizing the private and personal aspects of existence. Where motion pictures favor the panoramic shot, tele vision privileges the zoom shot, looking in rather than out. To represent conversation, film directors use the "shot-counter-shot" effect while television directors employ the tightly constructed "two faces east." Thus motion-picture conversation emphasizes the separations between people, while television depicts people as closely linked to one another."

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