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  • 1soft´ly — soft «sft, soft», adjective, adverb, noun, interjection. –adj. 1. a) not hard; yielding readily to touch or pressure: »a soft tomato, soft ground, a soft bed. b) easily bent without breaking; not stiff; flexible: »Oil keeps leather soft.… …

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  • 2Soft drink naming conventions — Soft drinks are called by many names in different places of the world. Africa Ethiopia Soft drinks are generally known in Ethiopia by the Amharic word leslassa , meaning literally smooth . The popular brand names Koka (Coke) and Mirinda (Orange… …

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  • 3Tap dance — was developed in the United States during the nineteenth century, and is popular nowadays in many parts of the world. The name comes from the tapping sound made when the small metal plates on the dancer s shoes touch a hard surface. This lively,… …

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  • 4soft shoe — «SFT SHOO, SOFT », verb, shoed, shoe|ing, adjective. –v.i. to dance or move as if dancing the soft shoe: »We soft shoed out and, in a corridor adjoining the gym, were introduced to a lady (New Yorker). –adj. of or having to do with the soft shoe …

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  • 5soft-shoe — soft′ shoe′ adj. mad of, pertaining to, or characteristic of tap dancing done in soft soled shoes, without taps • Etymology: 1915–20 …

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  • 6soft-shoe — [sôft′sho͞o΄] adj. designating a kind of tap dancing done without metal taps on the shoes …

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  • 7soft water — tap water that does not have many minerals …

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  • 8tap dance — a dance in which the rhythm or rhythmical variation is audibly tapped out with the toe or heel by a dancer wearing shoes with special hard soles or with taps. [‡1925 30] * * * Style of American theatrical dance using precise rhythmical patterns… …

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  • 9tap dance — I noun a dance step tapped out audibly with the feet • Syn: ↑tap dancing • Hypernyms: ↑step dancing, ↑hoofing • Hyponyms: ↑soft shoe, ↑ …

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  • 10Soft drink — A glass of cola A soft drink (also called soda, pop, coke,[1] soda pop, fizzy drink, tonic, or carbonated beverage) is a non alcoholic beverage that typically contains water (often, but not always carbonated water), a sweetener, and a …

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