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hotkeying

hotkeying is the present participle and gerund of hotkey.

Meaning of hotkey

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

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Questions about hotkeying

What is hotkeying the present participle and gerund of?
Hotkeying is the present participle and gerund of hotkey.

Words near hotkeying in the dictionary

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

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