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Definition: Shortcut |
ShortcutNoun1. A route shorter than the usual one. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shortcut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Shortcut |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ShortcutSynonyms: crosscut (n), cutoff (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Shortcut |
| Specialty definitions using "shortcut": double-click ♦ grick. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well I didn't take our usual shortcut through the mall (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer) Hey, Sid, the tiger found a shortcut. (Ice Age; writing credit: Michael Berg) Then I suggest you take the shortcut. (Ice Age; writing credit: Michael Berg) | |
Lyrics | There's a shortcut to the highway out of town (Run; performing artist: George Strait) | |
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George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | And our greatest fear is that terrorists will find a shortcut to their mad ambitions when an outlaw regime supplies them with the technologies to kill on a massive scale. |
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| "Shortcut" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Shortcut" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "shortcut": take a shortcut. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shortcut": shortcut-circuit. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "shortcut"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrugë që i bie shkurt, mënyrë e shpejtë. (various references) | |
Arabic | طريق مختصرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съкращавам метод (take a shortcut), съкращавам процедура (short circuit, take a shortcut), кратка процедура, начин на пестене на време, минавам по пряк път, пряк път (crosscut). (various references) | |
Chinese | 捷径, 捷徑 , 便" (makeshift road, pavement, sidewalk). (various references) | |
Czech | zkratka (abbreviation, byway, contraction, short cut). (various references) | |
French | raccourci (short cut, short way off). (various references) | |
German | Abkürzung (abbreviation, curtailment, cut, cutting short, short cut, shortening). (various references) | |
Greek | συντομώτεροσ δρόμοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לקצר ב"רך. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rövidebb út (cut-off, short cut, short-cut). (various references) | |
Indonesian | jalan pintas. (various references) | |
Irish | aicearra. (various references) | |
Italian | mossa (move, movement, play, step). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "" (side road), 近路 (short way), 近" (short way), 近" (short way), 捷径 (expedient), 捷径 (expedient), 早" , 便法 (expedient, handy method). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょうけい (a short break or breather, accession, aspiration, brief recess, commerce and economics, expedient, fine scenery, hieroglyphics, inheritance, lane, longing, path, recess, scenic view, short rest, subtotal, succession, type of character representing pictures), べ"ぽう (expedient, handy method), か"どう (being deeply moved emotionally, deep emotion, disinheritance, excitement, impression, side road), はやみち, ちかみち (short way). (various references) | |
Korean | 편법. (various references) | |
Manx | keim (amble, caste, degree, estate, grade, of high rank, pace, phase, pitch, position, stage, standard, station, step, stile), cassan er lheh (by-path). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ortcutshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | atalho (byway, cutoff, footpath, path, pathway, trail, way). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | atalho. (various references) | |
Russian | укороченный, сокращенный;укороченный, мелко накрошенный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prečicom, prečica. (various references) | |
Spanish | atajo (cutoff, interception). (various references) | |
Swedish | genväg (short cut, short-cut). (various references) | |
Turkish | kestirme yol (beeline, bypass, cutoff), kestirme (catnap, direct, fourty winks, inkling, lay down, lie down, nap, short, shut eye, zizz). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | укорочений, раціональний спосіб, найкоротший шлях (cut off). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shortcut": shortcuts, shortcutting. (additional references) | |
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"Shortcut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shitcart. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shortcut" (pronounced shô"rtku't) |
| 3 | -k u' t | haircut, undercut. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-o-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: chorus, chotts, courts, couths, rouths, scouth, thrust, troths, trouts, truths, tutors. | |
-3 letters: chott, court, couth, crush, crust, curst, hocus, horst, hours, hurst, hurts, rotch, roust, routh, routs, ruths, scour, scout, short, shott, shout, south, stour, stout, strut, sturt, thous, torch, torcs, torts, torus, touch, tours, touts, troth, trots, trout, trust, truth, tutor. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-o-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: shortcuts. | |
+2 letters: cutthroats, outstretch. | |
+3 letters: countershot. | |
+4 letters: butterscotch, countermyths, countershots, outstretched, outstretches, shortcutting, trichotomous. | |
+5 letters: counterthrust, heterocystous, horticultures, outstretching, photocurrents, photoproducts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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