What's the difference between whizz and zoom?

Whizz


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Crucially, according to IBM whizz David Gondek, Watson has the ability to learn, and so engineers have been feeding it with tens of thousands of books' worth of information.
  • (2) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
  • (3) Those Lords resisting an elected chamber had better prove their vaunted independence by kicking up an almighty stink at being denied any voice in the main cuts legislation whizzing through Westminster.
  • (4) The charity said it wanted to roll back the trend whereby councils made cuts in frontline services to balance squeezed budgets – and the care industry, which employs a million workers, sent staff whizzing between the homes of vulnerable people's houses in shifts as short as 15 minutes.
  • (5) While shopping centres, stations, airports and many other places are generally private land, whizzing around on a hoverboard requires the permission of the landowner.
  • (6) The Bay Area UASI helped to fund Urban Shield this year, and the DHS even has its own stall in the vendors’ show where it is showing off the latest whizz-bang tools created by its science and technology directorate.
  • (7) Volleys of bullets from the rebels' Kalashnikovs whizzed mostly towards army positions, but some flew down the boulevard and prompted those who had crept too close to throw themselves against walls and to the floor.
  • (8) A PR whizz, Palikot looks to have eaten away at support for the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), which won only about 8.2% of the vote.
  • (9) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan, Cardiff, veggischmooze.blogspot.com Makes 10 blintzes 200g plain flour A pinch of salt 50g butter or margarine, melted 25ml olive oil 400ml milk 2 organic free-range eggs A little oil, to fry Icing sugar and sour cream, to serve For the filling 300g soft cheese 15g vanilla sugar Grated zest of ½ lemon 1-2 tbsp lemon juice, to taste Pinch of salt 50g chopped raisins or dried fruit (optional) Icing sugar and sour cream to serve 1 Put all the pancake ingredients apart from the oil and filling in a food processor and whizz.
  • (10) "Month on month, we are losing whizzes who'll basically say, 'I'm sorry, I am going to take three times the salary and the car and whatever else.'"
  • (11) Well, that's the nature of the medium; as it whizzes past the eyes it seems very relevant but the malady of reality TV stars is that their shelf life expires, like dog years, by the power of seven.
  • (12) But a whizz around the BBC website reveals a story posted just five days before the Panorama broadcast, explaining the possibilities of tourism to North Korea.
  • (13) He believes that the private ownership of Global, headed by former Capital whizz kid Ashley Tabor and backed by money from the Irish racing magnates JP McManus and John Magnier, will allow more space for clarity of thought.
  • (14) It whizzed just wide, as did a thunderous 25-yard drive from Cissé two minutes later.
  • (15) Toure has a shot from distance that whizzes past the post.
  • (16) "Mountain bikes whizzing in and out of trees, jumping ramps above horses' heads, around an established sunken horse track, is an accident waiting to happen."
  • (17) The two men crossed two more streets with bullets whizzing around them before they met up with the rest of their men, a dozen soldiers who were taking cover from a regime tank.
  • (18) Despite the diversity of his career, a common thread throughout all his films, from the gleeful highs of Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance, The Last Boy Scout and Crimson Tide, to the deadening lows of his first film The Hunger, Revenge and Domino (Keira Knightley plays a bounty hunter – let us speak no more about it), is the whizz-bang-chop-cut style.
  • (19) One witness, Ibrahim Ghaleb Mohammad al-Sawary, the son of one of the factory directors, told the investigation he heard “whizzing followed by a very loud explosion”.
  • (20) They chanted “Hands up, don’t shoot!” as shoppers whizzed past in search of heavily-discounted TVs and vacuum cleaners.

Zoom


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mike Hawes, chief executive of the SMMT, said: “These figures mark an encouraging start to the year after a very strong 2014, with a strikingly robust company car market as businesses take advantage of the attractive finance offers currently available.” British car sales zoom ahead, but for how long?
  • (2) In this study, the COR was observed to shift linearly with zoom factor.
  • (3) While the Nexus One's single-finger prodding works well enough, there's none of the pinching action to zoom into maps and photographs that makes the iPhone feel so advanced, nor its realistic-feel friction.
  • (4) A digital zoom would be nice too; perhaps that's next year's thing.
  • (5) What followed was a rocket that zoomed past Gomes and City were two ahead.
  • (6) Endoscopy of the nose and nasopharynx using rigid endoscopes and the zoom-laryngoscope-epipharyngoscope after v. Stuckrad enhances the diagnostics in these regions considerably.
  • (7) The resolution indices were observed to be more sensitive to COR shift for clinical data acquired using no zoom factor.
  • (8) The use of surface coils in combination with a special gradient-zoom-technique allows high resolution imaging.
  • (9) "Twenty minutes later, Laurie Cunningham picked the ball up, zoomed through their defence and banged it in the net again.
  • (10) First there was the one whipped up by the invasive glare of the TV cameras, zooming in on the respective engagement rings of Sears and Ester Satorova, Berdych’s fiancee.
  • (11) It can be performed either in local anaesthesia using the zoom-endoscope by v. Stuckrad or during microlaryngoscopy under general anaesthesie.
  • (12) ZOOM can also configured itself to adapt to the hardware available.
  • (13) The CT scans were performed with the patients in standard positions; thin slices and zoom technique were used.
  • (14) Against a driving operatic score, the camera zooms out from a large government building to reveal features of the area's imagined urban topography: a clock tower, a new airport, an oil refinery, a light-rail system, and a stadium packed with cheering fans.
  • (15) The influence of zooming on COR depends on the location and the deviation of the COR from the axis-of-rotation (AOR).
  • (16) From Wall Street to Silicon Valley , from big pharma to the lobby machines in Washington and Westminster, zoom in and you’ll see rentiers everywhere.
  • (17) Opinion plays a prominent role at the front of the book and a section called Zoom takes readers into more in-depth stories, analysis of big events, reportage and news features.
  • (18) Then zoom out again to use your "thin pen" to manipulate the foam you've floated on the surface.
  • (19) But while the share sales element is expected to continue raking in £3bn until the end of the Treasury's time horizon of 2018, SDLT will zoom back to £12.2bn.
  • (20) The information files for ZOOM can be created or modified by the instructor using a word processor, and thus can be designed to suit the need of students.

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