Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which shortens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, shortens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
shortens .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any agent that shortens
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Examples
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Find out what the fastest URL shortener is in the slideshow below.
7 Fastest URL Shorteners Ranked By Pingdom (PICTURES) The Huffington Post 2010
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At the moment Google’s URL shortener is clearly dominating the market with perfect up time and extreme responsiveness — learn how you can use Goo. gl without a Google account or Google Toolbar here — but since it may not always be so WatchMouse set up a publicly accessible monitoring page to track URL shortening services.
All URL Shorteners Are Not Equal; Pick A Speedy And Reliable One | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Mitt Romney's spokesman has confirmed that they will be changing the Mitt. ly domain shortener.
VB.ly, Bit.ly and Mitt.ly in danger? Oh real.ly? Trouble in .ly domain land. Melissa Bell 2010
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Use URL "shortener" service that supports tracking.
doggdot.us 2009
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(That's just some statistics from the bit. ly URL shortener, which is popular but not the only that people use.
Latest News Articles 2009
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URL shortener bit. ly boosts efforts to stop spam ...
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Firefox browser users eager to try out Google's new web link shortener, you can stop shaking your heads now: It's not you.
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Oh the irony of the hundreds upon hundreds of twitter links to this site, using a third party URL shortener.
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We were also told that we were "promoting an illegal activity" with our link shortener.
.Ly Domains At Risk As Libyan Government Shuts Down Site Without Warning The Huffington Post 2010
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We were also told that we were "promoting an illegal activity" with our link shortener.
.Ly Domains At Risk As Libyan Government Shuts Down Site Without Warning The Huffington Post 2010
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