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Meaning of "soft line" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOFT LINE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOFT LINE

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Soft line is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SOFT LINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of soft line in the English dictionary

The definition of soft line in the dictionary is a moderate flexible attitude or policy.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOFT LINE

soft fruit
soft furnishings
soft goods
soft hat
soft hyphen
soft ice-cream
soft iron
soft landing
soft launch
soft lens
soft loan
soft margarine
soft money
soft on
soft option
soft palate
soft paste
soft pedal
soft pencil
soft porn

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOFT LINE

all along the line
bottom line
cell line
command line
credit line
dotted line
finish line
front line
hold the line
hotline
land line
lay on the line
on line
product line
production line
red line
sign on the dotted line
six-yard line
step out of line
tag line
toe the line

Synonyms and antonyms of soft line in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «soft line» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOFT LINE

Find out the translation of soft line to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of soft line from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «soft line» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

软线
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

línea suave
570 millions of speakers

English

soft line
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मुलायम लाइन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خط لينة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мягкая линия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

linha suave
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নরম লাইন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ligne douce
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Garis lembut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

weiche Linie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

柔軟路線
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

소프트 라인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Garis lembut
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dòng mềm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மென்மையான கோடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मऊ रेष
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yumuşak çizgi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

linea morbida
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

miękka linia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

м´яка лінія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

linie moale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαλακή γραμμή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sagte lyn
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mjuk linje
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

soft Line
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of soft line

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOFT LINE»

The term «soft line» is normally little used and occupies the 115.418 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOFT LINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «soft line» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «soft line» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about soft line

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOFT LINE»

Discover the use of soft line in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to soft line and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia
... to liberalism; and the essence of this retreat was conciliation of the bourgeois peasantry and intelligentsia. The soft line, in other words, was the official government and party line before 1928. That line was neither liberal nor non- Communist, ...
Sheila Fitzpatrick, 1992
2
The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in ...
8* Stalin felt this opinion was still sufficiently widespread in 1929 to warrant refuting it on three separate occasions.85 The Hard and the Soft Line The party leadership did not place their nationalities policy into a Bolshevik/ non-Bolshevik  ...
Terry Dean Martin, 2001
3
Web Design For Dummies
If you want to control where the text line breaks and wraps to the next line, as in Figure 14-13, you can insert a soft line break with a simple <br> tag. A soft line break creates less space than a hard line break, which is used to designate the ...
Lisa Lopuck, 2011
4
Hooligans in Khrushchev's Russia: Defining, Policing, and ...
In chapter 5, I examine the new soft-line approach toward petty criminals that the Soviet state unveiled in 1959. Instead of mandatory prison sentences, the soft line urged judges to give petty criminals noncustodial forms of punishment, transfer ...
Brian LaPierre, 2012
5
Three-way Street: Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics
Thus, Snyder and Diesing (308) relate strategies to expectations of responses as follows: If our [move]39 is: Opponent's response will be: Hard-line Expectation Soft-line Expectation Cooperate Defect Cooperate Defect Cooperate Defect Jervis ...
Joshua S. Goldstein, John R. Freeman, 1990
6
Terrorism and Homeland Security: An Introduction with ...
A soft-line response meets terrorist demands by addressing grievances, making reforms, releasing prisoners, or paying ransoms. ○ Diplomacy can seek compromise through negotiation with terrorists. A peace process may produce results.
Philip Purpura, 2011
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Altered States: International Relations, Domestic Politics, ...
His about-face did not save him, as he was removed from office nine months later and disappeared from view. Another key indicator of the lack of a soft-line faction is the 1996 crackdown on Cuban social scientists. In the early 1990s, Cuban ...
Andrew P. Cortell, Susan Peterson, 2003
8
Retail Management
Tables are used for bulk display to promote special value products or end-of-line stock for both hard-line and soft-line ... a soft-line product, the retailer can place items on a decked stand or on a wall display, where folding the product gives it ...
S.C. Bhatia, 2008
9
Yankee Don't Go Home!: Mexican Nationalism, American ...
Import restrictions made Sears de Mexico a competitive middle-class retailer of soft-line or small-ticket items, which consisted of clothing, shoes, and other apparel-industry products. Sears introduced blue jeans, sports shirts, and other ...
Julio Moreno, 2003
10
Design of Energy Efficient and Secure Wireless Sensor Networks
Surprisingly in most cases and defintely in uniformly random and gamma node response distribution, there are both average node delay reductions and aggregation miss reductions for soft-line over hard-line. In Figure 5(d), 5(e) and 5 (f), if the ...
Xiaoming Lu, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOFT LINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term soft line is used in the context of the following news items.
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LOOK: Elvis Andrus throws glove at soft line drive over his head
The Angels and Rangers continued their weekend series in Anaheim on Saturday night (GameTracker), and, in the sixth inning, Kole Calhoun lifted a soft line ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
2
Chicagoland Brings the Soft Line Between the Urban and the Wild …
chicagoland_still_website.jpg Chicagoland, Manual Cinema's first original short, is a simple story, beautifully told. A coyote moves through the city at night, ... «Gapers Block, May 15»
3
Home minister takes soft line on West Bengal bombs
KOLKATA: Though state BJP leaders would have liked to hear Union Home minister talk tough on the West Bengal government and its chief minister, Rajnath ... «Times of India, May 15»
4
A divided ASEAN takes a soft line against Beijing over South China …
Summit host Malaysian Prime Minister Razak soft-pedals the issue to avoid direct conflicts. Meanwhile, the association is working on a code of conduct whilst ... «AsiaNews.it, Apr 15»
5
Rugby: NZ Rugby take soft line on Joseph's concussion comments
New Zealand Rugby is refusing to condemn Jamie Joseph's flippant comments about Josh Hohneck's concussion despite promising to take the issue seriously ... «Otago Daily Times, Apr 15»
6
Hard line or soft line? Xi Jinping's diplomatic choices
This line has led to an extremely delicate balance that Xi must maintain between international cooperation and a hard-line foreign policy. But as long as China's ... «East Asia Forum, Nov 14»
7
Jeff Merkley Has Advocated Soft Line on Iran Since 1979
The senator who fronted a campaign against new sanctions on Iran earlier this year has since 1979 been advocating that the United States take a soft line on ... «Washington Free Beacon, Apr 14»
8
Ukraine Jewish Leaders Blast Israel for Soft Line on Crimea
A Ukrainian Jewish leader opposed to the Russian takeover of Crimea failed to drum up support this week from Israel, which is sitting out the crisis pitting its U.S. ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Mar 14»
9
Kerry's soft line on Pakistan a sore subject
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry avoided associating Pakistan with terrorism and instead advised India to deepen bilateral trade ties with its neighbour. On his ... «The Hindu, Jun 13»
10
Anti-terror: Is US hard line better than India's soft line?
Our counter-argument to those who point out our incompetence in tackling terror has always been on these lines: the US has succeeded not just because it has ... «Firstpost, Apr 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Soft line [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/soft-line>. May 2024 ».
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