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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

soft break

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English

Syllables
soft- break
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A breakaway that is allowed to go from the peloton in a stage race because it poses no strategic threat to any of the main contenders in the general classification.

noun

A soft line break: any of certain kinds of line break (depending on implementation details) that cause a newline (i.e., line feed plus carriage return) inside a single paragraph, rather than demarking a paragraph break (hard return).

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

soft breaks (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

hard return paragraph break

Synonyms

soft return

Questions

What does soft break mean?
A breakaway that is allowed to go from the peloton in a stage race because it poses no strategic threat to any of the main contenders in the general classification.

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