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Etymology
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From short + cut.
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shortcut (plural shortcuts)
- A path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths.
- A method to accomplish something that omits one or more steps.
2021 November 3, “Network News: EMR changes claims process”, in RAIL, number 943, page 15:East Midlands Railway is introducing new shortcuts for claiming compensation in the event of late-running services.
- (computing, in the Microsoft family of operating systems) A file that points to the location of another file and serves as a quick way to access it.
There are shortcuts to some of my favourite applications on my desktop.
- (computing) Short for keyboard shortcut.
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path
- Bulgarian: пряк път m (prjak pǎt)
- Catalan: drecera (ca) f, atall (ca) m, sender tallat m (literally “shortened path”)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 捷徑/捷径 (zh) (jiéjìng), 近路 (zh) (jìnlù)
- Czech: zkratka (cs) f
- Danish: genvej c
- Estonian: otsetee,
- Faroese: snarleið
- Finnish: oikotie (fi), oikopolku (fi), oikoreitti (fi)
- French: raccourci (fr)
- Galician: atallo m
- Georgian: უმოკლესი გზა (umoḳlesi gza), პირდაპირი გზა (ṗirdaṗiri gza), შორთქათი (šortkati) (slang)
- German: Abkürzung (de), Wegabkürzung f, schnellerer Weg m
- Greek: παραδρόμι n (paradrómi), παράκαμψη (el) f (parákampsi)
- Ancient: ἀτραπός f (atrapós)
- Icelandic: flýtileið f
- Indonesian: jalan pintas (id)
- Irish: aicearra m, bealach aic m, cóngar m
- Italian: scorciatoia (it) f, sentiero tagliato m (literally “shortened path”)
- Japanese: 近道 (ちかみち, chikamichi)
- Kapampangan: mamaltang, baltang
- Latin: brevius (ōris) iter (itinĕris) n, via (ae) transversa f
- Malay: pintasan (ms)
- Malayalam: കുറുക്കുവഴി (ml) (kuṟukkuvaḻi)
- Manx: cassan er lheh m, (please verify) keim f
- Maori: ara poka pū, ara poka tata, tukutata, aria pokatata
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: snarvei (no) m
- Polish: skrót (pl) m
- Portuguese: atalho (pt)
- Romanian: scurtătură (ro) f
- Russian: кратча́йший пу́ть m (kratčájšij pútʹ), срез (ru) m (srez)
- Scottish Gaelic: aithghearr f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: прѐчица f, прѐчац m
- Roman: prèčica (sh) f, prèčac (sh) m
- Slovene: bližnjica f
- Spanish: atajo (es)
- Swahili: mkato (sw)
- Swedish: genväg (sv) c
- Tagalog: laktod, gitis
- Thai: ทางลัด (th) (thang lad)
- Turkish: kestirme (tr), kestirme yol
- Ukrainian: найкоро́тший шлях m (najkorótšyj šljax)
- Vietnamese: lối tắt, đường tắt
- Welsh: llwybr tarw m
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shortcut (third-person singular simple present shortcuts, present participle shortcutting, simple past and past participle shortcutted or shortcut)
- To take or use a shortcut
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