bracket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹækɪt/
rhymes: -ækɪt
Forms: form: brackets
Etymology: From earlier bragget, *bracket, from Middle English *braget, *braket (attested in braket nail), from Old French braguette (“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches, one's fly”), a diminutive of Old French brague (“knickers, britches”), from Old Occitan braga, from Latin brāca (“pants”), from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, from Proto-Germanic *brāks, an early form of Proto-Germanic *brōks (“leggings, breeches, trousers”).
Senses: glosses: A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
examples: text: To determine if your frame has this bottom bracket type, look for a notched and possibly knurled lockring on the left side (the side without the chainrings).
ref: 2005, Todd Downs, The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance & Repair for Road and Mountain bikes, →ISBN:
text: Not only does the attachment on the tooth surface (called a bracket) allow the tooth to be moved vertically or tilted, but also a force couple can be generated by the interaction between the bracket and an archwire running through the bracket.
ref: 2013, Laura Mitchell, An Introduction to Orthodontics, →ISBN, page 220:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
glosses: Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.
“(” and “)” specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
glosses: Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.
“[” and “]” specifically, as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A diagram of games in a tournament.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
examples: text: tax bracket, age bracket
glosses: One of several ranges of numbers.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
qualifier: land surveying
glosses: a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench.
Synonyms: sense: "(" and ")"
word: parentheses
sense: "(" and ")"
word: parens
sense: land surveying
word: benchmark
word: bracket
Hypernyms: word: punctuation mark
Hyponyms: word: angle bracket
word: curly bracket
word: parenthesis
word: round bracket
word: square bracket
word: brace
Derived terms: angle bracket
banana bracket
birch bracket
bottom bracket
bracket buster
bracket clock
bracket creep
bracketer
bracket fungus
bracketless
bracketlike
bracketology
bracket race
bracket racer
bracket racing
bracketry
bracketwise
brackety
broket
bulge bracket
corner bracket
curly bracket
curly-bracket language
diamond bracket
gas bracket
hair bracket
income bracket
income tax bracket
Iverson bracket
left bracket
lenticular bracket
Lie bracket
multibracket
pointy bracket
price bracket
right bracket
shelf bracket
superbracket
tax bracket
tortoise shell bracket
unbracket
Related terms: alt: '; ’
word: apostrophe
word: curly brackets
word: brace
word: square bracket or bracket
alt: :
word: colon
alt: ,
word: comma
alt: ‒; –; —; ―
word: dash
alt: …
word: ellipsis
alt: !
word: exclamation mark
alt: ⁄
word: fraction slash
alt: « »; ‹ ›
word: guillemet
alt: -; ‐
word: hyphen
alt: ·
word: interpunct
alt: ‽
word: interrobang
word: bracket or parentheses (US
alt: ( )
word: Canada)
word: full stop
alt: .
word: period
alt: ?
word: question mark
alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „
word: quotation marks
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
alt: "; '
word: quotation marks
alt: ;
word: semicolon
word: slash
alt: /
word: stroke
alt: ] [
word: space