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soft break

soft break 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

soft break (plural soft breaks)

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
    • Near-synonym: soft return (sometimes synonymous)
    Synonyms:
    soft return

Synonyms of soft break

Forms of soft break

pluralsoft breaks

Questions about soft break

What does soft break mean?
Soft break means 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.
What part of speech is soft break?
Soft break is a noun.
What is the plural of soft break?
The plural of soft break is soft breaks.

Words near soft break in the dictionary

  1. soft bomb
  2. soft bombs
  3. soft boxing
  4. soft boy
  5. soft boys
  6. soft break
  7. soft breaks
  8. soft Brexit
  9. soft butch
  10. soft butches
  11. soft c

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