pinch
- noun
- /pɪnʧ/
- Specialized
- The app allows you to easily zoom out by performing a pinch movement with your fingers.
- pinch to zoom
It's an attempt to find pinch to zoom.
- It's an attempt to find pinch to zoom.
- The key point is, is that the paper map doesn't have an extra dimension to play with, but the pinch to zoom dimension is a scale dimension.
Examples
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Now you just use the pinch gesture to pinch and select things, and I'm using it to slide through the menus.
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And you can do things like pinch-to-zoom in photos (though it's not quite as smooth as it is on iOS).
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It's an attempt to find pinch to zoom.
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I want pinch and zoom on image review too.
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I doubt Android would lose pinch to zoom or any of its core features.
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In this case, when the user finishes the pinch gesture, you need to add a new item to the list.
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Pinch to zoom—Microsoft has removed the +/- buttons, saving space on the screen.
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"You can do multi-finger gestures on it," he said, moving his hands back and forth in the now-familiar pinch-to-zoom motion.
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To zoom in on the image, simply use the pinch gesture on your touchscreen.
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With a gentle pinch on the screen, the text became larger and easier to read.
Idioms
Compounds
- Jargon
A player who bats in place of another or someone who fills a job for a short time
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Etymology
A touchscreen pinch is named after the finger movement you make to zoom, so the gesture keeps the same image of fingers 'squeezing' the picture to change its size.