zero in | Idiomator

Meaning: Tofocusone'saim; tozoom inandcenter(on something).The pilotzeroed inon the bunker and launched a guided missile.Zero inand find a watermark in the image.1981September 15, day@RAND-UNIX, “C debugging”, infa.unix-wizards‎[1](Usenet):When you invoke the VAX C compiler with -p for profiling it generates an assembly-language call to a profiling subroutine for which I substituted my own heap-checker, and that enabled me tozero inon a heap-violation which was caused by an array-out-of-bounds condition.2021December 6, Andrew E. Kramer, “Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight”, inThe New York Times‎[2],→ISSN:The Biden administration has alsozeroed inon the building, Federation Tower East, the tallest skyscraper in the Russian capital.; Tosuccessfullynarrow downasearch(for).We havezeroed inon the source of the problem.See if you canzero inon the caller.; Toconcentrateorfocusone'sattention(on a task).Coordinate term:tune inOne member of the check fraud team willzero inon the fingerprints.2010, Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, Paula England, “Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women? Compared to What?”, inContexts‎[3], volume 9, number 3,→DOI, page23b:Scholarship suggests that pop culture feminists have correctlyzeroed inon sexual double standards as a key source of gender inequality in sexuality.; (idiomatic)Toconverge(on).At the spring sale, everyonezeroed inon the bargain clothes.2019May 8, Barney Ronay,The Guardian‎[4]:With 79 minutes gone, the most celebrated team of the modern age had been reduced to bunch of mooching, stumbling yellow-shirted spectators. A Champions League season that had seemed to bezeroing inon another coronation for Lionel Messi had been wrenched, gleefully, the other way.

Examples:

EN: I went from hero to zero in a week.
ES: Yo he pasado de cuatro goles a cero.
EN: - Two in the 916th, zero in the others.
ES: - 2 en la 916, ninguno en las demás.
EN: We started to zero in on the valley with our howitzers.
ES: Apuntábamos hacia el valle con nuestra artillería.
EN: I got honors in school and a big zero in life. Nothing!
ES: Saqué matrículas estudiando y un gran cero en la vida. ¡Nada!
EN: I'm gonna zero in.
ES: Voy a apuntar.
EN: I know they've been searching and will eventually zero in on this planet.
ES: Sé que están buscando y que al final llegarán aquí.
EN: When I... The day you get more money out of me, it'll be below zero in the Fiji's.
ES: El día que te pague más dinero, nevará en Fiji.
EN: All our customers don't try bluffing to get benefits by adding a zero in the tax directory.
ES: No todos los clientes intentan engañarnos y sacar provecho añadiendo un cero en el calendario de impuestos.
EN: ~ You've earned a zero in zoology.
ES: -Tienes cero en zoología.
EN: For him, my friend, I'll zero in on that hearing like a B25 in heavy flak.
ES: Por Jack soy capaz de caer sobre esa junta como un B-25.
EN: Hope for a lucky shot before they zero in on us?
ES: ¿Y tener suerte antes de que nos disparen?
EN: 9 above zero in Moscow.
ES: Nueve grados en Moscú.
EN: We have to spend the night. It's ceiling zero in New York.
ES: Tenemos que pernoctar aquí, en Nueva York hay mucha niebla.
EN: So by selecting the right combination of flute toots... I was able to cause those mice and their homing mechanisms... to zero in on the source of the sounds: the flutes.
ES: Así que al seleccionar la correcta combinación de tonos de flauta fui capaz de causar en esos ratones y sus mecanismos de búsqueda una puesta a cero en la fuente de los sonidos:
EN: It's 200 degrees below zero in here.
ES: Aquí hay 200 grados bajo cero.

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