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soft break en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  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)

Forms

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soft breaks Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

hard return · paragraph break

Synonyms

soft return