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How to pronounce shortcut in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms crosscut, cutoff
Type of road, route

Examples of shortcut

shortcut
You also get a couple handy shortcut buttons hovering along the top of the unit.
From the washingtonpost.com
Unfortunately, there's no shortcut to making sure you've covered all your bases.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Most of these shortcut redirects are just abbreviated forms of the page's title.
From the en.wikipedia.org
My shortcut is quite stimulating as soon as each week I do a few things with it.
From the iftomm2003.com
I take a major shortcut that doesn't sacrifice the quiche's flavor or appearance.
From the ocregister.com
Using our shortcut method, if you like, you can make it in advance and freeze it.
From the post-gazette.com
This is very useful is helping distinguish between a shortcut and an actual file.
From the chron.com
One shortcut is to take a docent-led trolley tour, which runs through November.
From the washingtonpost.com
It's a popular shortcut by residents to avoid traffic congestion on Beaver Grade.
From the post-gazette.com
More examples
  • A route shorter than the usual one
  • A file shortcut in Microsoft Windows is a small file containing a target URI or GUID, or the name of a target program file that the shortcut represents. The shortcut might additionally specify parameters to be passed to the target program when it is run. ...
  • Shortcut is a Swedish-language magazine and meeting place centred on work and lifestyle. It is aimed at: *People with higher education *Entrepreneurs *Free agents *Self-taught people
  • A path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths; A method to accomplish something that omits one or more steps; A symlink (symbolic file link); especially, one that appears as an icon
  • (shortcuts) Key strokes that enact the same commands available in the menus of a program. They are quicker and more direct, and usually involve two or three keys depressed simultaneously. An example is the save shortcut: CTRL + s on a PC or +s on a Mac. To learn more, click here. ...
  • (shortcutting) The (Combinatorial) Object Server's information on Permutations (Pascal and C); Michael Gilleland's Permutation Generator (Java); Glenn Rhoads' Snippets (c); (Pascal, Fortran, Mathematica, and C); (Fortran).
  • An object that simplifies the process of accessing a file or running a program. A desktop icon is an example of an application shortcut.
  • Placing a link to a Report Object from the Master Catalog in one's Personal Catalog.
  • A link you can click to go straight to a particular program or web page