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Terms vs Longcut - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and longcut

is that terms is while longcut is a path between two points that is not the shortest or quickest route.

terms

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    longcut

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a path between two points that is not the shortest or quickest route
  • * 1986 , Andrew A. Rooney , Word for Word , G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 55:
  • I got to work twenty-three minutes later than when I take the longcut.
  • *1994 , Gary Paulson , Winterdance , Harcourt Brace, page 69:
  • The shortcut proved, as most of them seem to do, to be a "longcut"
  • *2006 , Kathy Morey , Hawaii Trails: Walks, Strolls and Treks on the Big Island , Wilderness Press, page 245:
  • It's no shortcut, it's a "longcut."