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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shortcut

also short-cut, "path not as long as the ordinary way," 1610s, from short (adj.) + cut (n.). Figurative use is attested earlier (1580s).

Wiktionary
shortcut

alt. 1 A path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths. 2 A method to accomplish something that omits one or more steps. 3 (context computing in the http://en.wikipedi

  1. org/wiki/Microsoft family of operating systems English) A symlink (symbolic file link); ''especially'', one that appears as an icon. 4 A keyboard shortcut - a combination of keystrokes that provides easier access to a command or operation n. 1 A path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths. 2 A method to accomplish something that omits one or more steps. 3 (context computing in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft family of operating systems English) A symlink (symbolic file link); ''especially'', one that appears as an icon. 4 A keyboard shortcut - a combination of keystrokes that provides easier access to a command or operation v

  2. (rft-sense) To take or use a shortcut

WordNet
shortcut

n. a route shorter than the usual one [syn: cutoff, crosscut]

Wikipedia
Shortcut (magazine)

Shortcut is a Swedish-language magazine and meeting place centred on work and lifestyle. The magazine was established in January 1999. It is published bimonthly and aims at people with higher education, entrepreneurs, free agents and self-taught people.

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Shortcut (2015 film)

Shortcut – Disto Pan Nasto is a 2015 Marathi language film. It is a Romantic Thriller based on the life of protagonist, Rohit ( Vaibbhav Tatwawdi) an ace computer hacker who mysteriously gets into a legal hassle for a huge hacking case. The case is helmed by cop Rajesh Shringarpure, a no nonsense police officer. Meanwhile, his love is tested with Ishika (Sanskruti Balgude). It is directed and written by Mr. Harish Raut. Produced by M K Motion Pictures & Chitrakar Films, It has six songs and all by six music directors. Shortcut will be out in cinemas on 7 August 2015. The makers are planning an out of the box marketing strategy for the months prior to the big release.

Usage examples of "shortcut".

The techs stared at Arcas, as if the green priest could ease their fears or offer them some sort of shortcut.

Jim Chee was driving through Nutt, New Mexico, on Highway 26, taking advantage of the shortcut that took one from Interstate 25 to Interstate 10 without the long dogleg to Las Cruces, taking advantage of that five-mile-over-the-speed-limit State Police usually allowed.

She made a shortcut to the lobby from the side parking lot, where her father was waiting for her in his avocado 1970 Plymouth Barracuda fastback, which he had bought as a used car from Dwayne.

If the tunnel ever went through, the Japs would have a shortcut between Honolulu and Kaneohe on the east coast of Oahu.

Streaker with his initial report, and a sled should already be returning down the new shortcut they had found, bringing a monofilament intercom line from home.

Gauss and Euler, Riemann and Levi-Civita, deRham and Cartan, Radiya and Blanca then Yatima knew there were no shortcuts, no alternatives to exploring the Mines firsthand.

It is the layered accumulation of successive, sporadic efforts, of timesaving, moneysaving slipshod shortcuts.

There must, he reasoned, be a shortcut through the hills known only to the Utes, or else the band had ridden like mad and circled around to get out in front of them.

At the same time, because the Germans had developed advanced systems to attack Soviet codes and ciphers, the West would gain an invaluable shortcut in finding ways to break Russian cipher systems.

Yet still there was a particular sight which surprised Jalila more than any other as she clambered over the ropes and groynes of the long shingle beach which she took as a shortcut to the centre of the town when the various tides were out.

They passed the limp little bundle of black and white fur that had been Flopper and went on, bypassing the shortcut through the junipers and following the sandy canyon bed.

There are no shortcuts to gaining an undergraduate and graduate education in the neurosciences, and the development of technologies that have advanced this field has been made only with long, hard work.

In some cases, we suspected they were trying to shortcut constitutional or statutory limits, and their requests were denied.

There were shortcuts here, secret passageways, tunnels, stopes, and drifts that would take many years to explore and learn.

He pressed a button and listened as a small male head, calling itself Simeon Goldfloss, announced the existence of a shortcut to the amphitheater in the armillary sphere.