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hotkey

Syllables: hot·key/ˈhɒtkiː/

hotkey noun: a keyboard shortcut.

Noun

hotkey (plural hotkeys)

  1. A keyboard shortcut.

Verb

hotkey (third-person singular simple present hotkeys, present participle hotkeying, simple past and past participle hotkeyed)

  1. (intransitive) To navigate by means of a keyboard shortcut.
    • All of the sales talk about hotkeying between 3270 sessions and DOS applications sounds great until you try to squeeze the DOS applications into the PC while it's emulating a terminal.1988, PC Mag, volume 7, number 21, page 183

hotkey meaning in Bengali

hotkey in Bengali

কীবোর্ড শর্টকাট

Forms of hotkey

Noun
pluralhotkeys
alternative formhot key
Verb
third-person singular presenthotkeys
present participlehotkeying
past participlehotkeyed
pasthotkeyed

Origin of hotkey

From hot + key.

Questions about hotkey

What does hotkey mean?
Hotkey means a keyboard shortcut.
What is hotkey in Bengali?
Hotkey in Bengali is কীবোর্ড শর্টকাট. See Hotkey meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hotkey?
Hotkey can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce hotkey?
Hotkey is pronounced /ˈhɒtkiː/.
What is the plural of hotkey?
The plural of hotkey is hotkeys.

Words near hotkey in the dictionary

  1. hothusbanded
  2. hothusbanding
  3. hothusbands
  4. Hoti
  5. Hoting
  6. hotkey
  7. hotkeyed
  8. hotkeying
  9. hotkeys
  10. Hotlanta
  11. hotlapping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hotkey (page history and authors); hotkey (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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