bracket
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
arts
engineering
government
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
mathematics
media
military
natural-sciences
nautical
phenomenology
philosophy
photography
physical-sciences
politics
publishing
sciences
sports
transport
typography
war
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: brackets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brackets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bracketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bracketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bracketed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
pos: noun
gloss: Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
pos: noun
examples: 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).
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.
gloss: A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
pos: noun
gloss: The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A diagram of games in a tournament.
pos: noun
gloss: A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
pos: noun
gloss: One of several ranges of numbers.
pos: noun
examples: tax bracket, age bracket
taxpayers in the $50,000 to $70,000 bracket
gloss: A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
pos: noun
gloss: Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
pos: noun
gloss: The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
pos: noun
gloss: a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To support by means of mechanical brackets.
pos: verb
gloss: To enclose in typographical brackets.
pos: verb
gloss: To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.
pos: verb
gloss: To place in the same category.
pos: verb
examples: Because they didn’t have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year-olds with the eight-year-olds.
Some villain who knows nothing about it comes into it for money and so the labours of honest mediums get discounted. The public very naturally brackets them all together.
gloss: To mark distinctly for special treatment.
pos: verb
examples: Next, since so much social activity is defined by being bracketed out of the world of ongoing events, it becomes possible that outside such bracketed episodes, […] people are — especially beforehand, but also afterwards — to some extent "out of role", and so off their guard.
gloss: To set aside, discount, ignore.
pos: verb
examples: SIL got access to academic legitimacy; linguists bracketed the evangelical engine that drives SIL because they got access to data and tools.
gloss: To gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.
pos: verb
gloss: To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
pos: verb
gloss: In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.
pos: verb
Synonyms: parentheses
parens
bracket
Related words: apostrophe
curly brackets
brace
square bracket or bracket
colon
comma
dash
ellipsis
exclamation mark
fraction slash
guillemet
hyphen
interpunct
interrobang
bracket or parentheses (US
Canada)
full stop
period
question mark
quotation marks
semicolon
slash
stroke
space
Derived words: 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
hooked bracket
income bracket
income tax bracket
Iverson bracket
left bracket
lenticular bracket
Lie bracket
multibracket
pointy bracket
price bracket
right bracket
round bracket
shelf bracket
square bracket
superbracket
tax bracket
tortoise shell bracket
unbracket
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: kllapë
lang: Arabic
word: قَوْس
roman: qaws
lang: Armenian
word: փակագիծ
roman: pʻakagic
lang: Bashkir
word: йәйә
roman: yəyə
lang: Belarusian
word: ду́жка
roman: dúžka
lang: Belarusian
word: ско́бка
roman: skóbka
lang: Bulgarian
word: ско́ба
roman: skóba
lang: Bulgarian
word: ско́бка
roman: skóbka
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 括號 /括号
roman: kuòhào
lang: Czech
word: závorka
lang: Danish
word: parentes
lang: Dutch
word: haakje
lang: Esperanto
word: krampo
lang: Faroese
word: klombur
lang: Finnish
word: sulje
lang: Finnish
word: sulku
lang: Finnish
word: sulkumerkki
lang: Georgian
word: ფრჩხილები
roman: prčxilebi
lang: German
word: Klammer
lang: Greek
word: παρένθεση
roman: parénthesi
lang: Greek
word: αγκύλη
roman: agkýli
lang: Greek
word: άγκιστρο
roman: ágkistro
lang: Greek
word: γωνιώδης αγκύλη
roman: goniódis agkýli
lang: Hungarian
word: zárójel
lang: Irish
word: lúibín
lang: Italian
word: parentesi
lang: Japanese
word: 括弧
roman: kakko
lang: Korean
word: 괄호
roman: gwalho
lang: Kumyk
word: жая
roman: jaya
lang: Latin
word: uncus
lang: Macedonian
word: заграда
roman: zagrada
lang: Manx
word: lhoobeen
lang: Mongolian
word: хаалт
roman: xaalt
lang: Norman
word: crotchet
lang: Polish
word: nawias
lang: Portuguese
word: parêntese
lang: Russian
word: ско́бка
roman: skóbka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: camag
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zagrada
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: за̑града
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zȃgrada
lang: Sinhalese
word: වරහන්
roman: warahan
lang: Slovak
word: zátvorka
lang: Slovene
word: oklepáj
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: spinka
lang: Swedish
word: parentes
lang: Turkish
word: ayraç
lang: Turkish
word: parantez
lang: Ukrainian
word: ду́жка
roman: dúžka
lang: Vietnamese
word: dấu ngoặc đơn