shortcut
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1.6
- noun
- /ˈʃɔrtˌkʌt/
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atajo
- Taking the shortcut saved us at least twenty minutes on our drive home.
- take a shortcut
- a shortcut route
- find a shortcut
Let me tell you, the American Dream has no shortcuts and no endpoint.
- Let me tell you, the American Dream has no shortcuts and no endpoint.
- So tell us the one or two shortcuts to get to your point.
- So you're going to be taking shortcuts, what are called heuristics.
- And so that seems like a shortcut to get big leaps in performance.
- But using quantum mechanics, you can take shortcuts and that makes life possible.
- So, so this is a distinction between shortcuts and cutting corners.
- Like those things, they are a shortcut, the shortest gap between two dots.
- And so people have to take shortcuts in their beliefs.
- And once again, to be a Cynic is to take a shortcut in doing philosophy.
- And then you start to see that there's shortcuts, the shortcuts that don't serve us.
Examples
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I know a pretty good shortcut.
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Then I'll take a shortcut in and get her out of there.
Fiction book (1996) -
If you know a better shortcut, let me know it.
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We'll take the shortcut and we'll head 'em off.
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It's a shortcut to the plant.
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So I've just realized that taking the shortcut is always worth it.
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But Clare had grown up in the castle and knew every shortcut from one part to the next.
Fiction book (1999) -
Stoner often crossed this field, taking a shortcut to the public library.
Fiction book (1998) -
I don't know that there are any shortcuts to doing a good job.
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Let me tell you, the American Dream has no shortcuts and no endpoint.
Synonyms
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1.0
A road or path people use to travel between places
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4.2
A straight path from one place to another
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3.6
A short road that saves time or distance
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4.9
A short path that goes across an area to save time
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4.9
A short route through a neighborhood that saves time by avoiding busy roads
Antonyms
How Short
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shortcut comes from the two common words short and cut, where cut means 'to make something shorter'. So a shortcut is a way that 'cuts' the long route to make it short, which is why it saves time.