Shortcut vs Abbreviation - What's the difference?
shortcut | abbreviation |
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.
A keyboard shortcut - a combination of keystrokes that provides easier access to a command or operation
(rft-sense) To take or use a shortcut
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as, +, =, @.
The process of abbreviating.
(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
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As nouns the difference between shortcut and abbreviation
is that shortcut is a path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths while abbreviation is the result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.As a verb shortcut
is to take or use a shortcut.shortcut
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Alternative forms
* short cut, short-cutNoun
(en noun)- There are shortcuts to some of my favourite applications on my desktop.
Derived terms
* keyboard shortcutSee also
* ("shortcut" on Wikipedia)Verb
(shortcutt)Anagrams
*abbreviation
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(wikipedia abbreviation)Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- the phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships. - Pres. Truman's comittee on Civil Rights
