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# shortcut

«shortcut» in Mova's school dictionary: **a quicker or shorter way to get somewhere** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a shortcut, shortcuts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shortcut is a quicker or shorter way to get somewhere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shortcut/#m1)

2) A quicker way of doing something, like a trick in maths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shortcut/#m2)

3) On a computer, a key combination or icon that does something quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shortcut/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life and safety: "Don't take shortcuts through the woods or across railway lines." In maths: a mental maths shortcut (to multiply by 10, move the digits). In computing: keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+C to copy. A warning phrase: "There are no shortcuts to learning".

### examples

- We took a shortcut through the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shortcut/#x1)
- Never take a shortcut across the railway tracks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shortcut/#x2)
- A shortcut for 9 times a number is 10 times minus one time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shortcut/#x3)
- Press Ctrl+Z as a shortcut to undo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shortcut/#x4)
- Put a shortcut to the game on the desktop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shortcut/#x5)
- There's no shortcut to learning to read. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shortcut/#x6)

### note

Countable. Also written "short cut" in British English. A shortcut is not always safe or correct; check your answer.

### In the corpora

- [Ollie tried a shortcut: he secretly downloaded the free demo of an older game on the family console.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/404-parents-rules-for-big-games/21/)
- [No shortcuts?» Sam is so relieved he laughs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/475-the-row-over-a-game/6/)
- [A canal is a waterway dug by people, a shortcut where nature left none.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shortcut» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shortcut/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.