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How to pronounce soffit in English?

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Thus the discharge of a bath fan through a soffit is sucked back into the attic.
From the dailyherald.com
Install soffit vents on the soffit, which is the under part of the roof overhang.
From the denverpost.com
After the roof was put on, I noticed they forgot to reinstall the soffit vents.
From the dailyherald.com
Your answer was not to do this because the soffit is an intake for outside air.
From the dailyherald.com
Those little round vents, even big ones, spaced along the soffit, are useless.
From the denverpost.com
The garage is three-car in size with an attic that has ridge and soffit vents.
From the kentucky.com
That means a full-length soffit vent on both the front and back of the house.
From the dailyherald.com
If the house is equipped with soffit vents, make sure they are clear of insulation.
From the sfgate.com
He also suggested that we seal off the soffit vents, which would create a cold roof.
From the dailyherald.com
More examples
  • The underside of a part of a building (such as an arch or overhang or beam etc.)
  • Soffit (from French soffite, formed as a ceiling; directly from suffictus for suffixus, Latin suffigere, to fix underneath), in architecture, describes the underside of any construction element. ...
  • The visible underside of an arch, balcony, beam, cornice, staircase, vault or any other architectural element; The top point of the inside open section of a pipe or box conduit
  • Soffits are vents under the roof overhang that allow your attic to breathe.
  • (Soffits) this is the boarding that runs right angle to the wall surface, facing downwards. Its very often ventilated with mesh covered slots to allow roof space to breathe.
  • An external area under the overhang of a roof.
  • The finished underside of the eaves.
  • Material used to enclose the horizontal underside of an eave, cornice, or overhang. Some soffit panels may also be used as vertical siding.
  • The area below the eaves and overhangs. The underside where the roof overhangs the walls. Usually the underside of an overhanging cornice.