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soft breaks

soft breaks is the plural of soft break.

Meaning of soft break

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

Questions about soft breaks

What is soft breaks the plural of?
Soft breaks is the plural of soft break.

Words near soft breaks in the dictionary

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

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