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bracket
[ brak-it ]
noun
- a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- a shelf or shelves so supported.
- a square bracket or a curly bracket.
- Mathematics.
- brackets, parentheses of various forms indicating that the enclosed quantity is to be treated as a unit.
- (loosely) vinculum ( def 2 ).
- Informal. an expression or formula between a pair of brackets.
- a grouping of people based on the amount of their income:
the low-income bracket.
- a class; grouping; classification:
She travels in a different social bracket.
- Sports. a diagram that tracks the process of elimination among sequentially paired opponents in a tournament.
- Architecture.
- any horizontally projecting support for an overhanging weight, as a corbel, cantilever, or console.
- any of a series of fancifully shaped false consoles beneath an ornamental cornice.
- (on a staircase) an ornamental piece filling the angle between a riser and its tread.
- Shipbuilding.
- a flat plate, usually triangular with a flange on one edge, used to unite and reinforce the junction between two flat members or surfaces meeting at an angle.
- any member for reinforcing the angle between two members or surfaces.
- a projecting fixture for gas or electricity.
- Gunnery. range or elevation producing both shorts and overs on a target.
verb (used with object)
- to furnish with or support by a bracket or brackets.
- to place within brackets; couple with a brace.
- to associate, mention, or class together:
Gossip columnists often bracket them together, so a wedding may be imminent.
- Gunnery. to place (shots) both beyond and short of a target.
- Photography. to take (additional shots) at exposure levels above and below the estimated correct exposure.
bracket
/ ˈæɪ /
noun
- an L-shaped or other support fixed to a wall to hold a shelf, etc
- one or more wall shelves carried on brackets
- Also calledsquare bracket either of a pair of characters, [ ], used to enclose a section of writing or printing to separate it from the main text
- a group or category falling within or between certain defined limits
the lower income bracket
- the distance between two preliminary shots of artillery fire in range-finding
- a skating figure consisting of two arcs meeting at a point, tracing the shape ⋎
verb
- to fix or support by means of a bracket or brackets
- to put (written or printed matter) in brackets, esp as being irrelevant, spurious, or bearing a separate relationship of some kind to the rest of the text
- to couple or join (two lines of text, etc) with a brace
- often foll by with to group or class together
to bracket Marx with the philosophers
- to adjust (artillery fire) until the target is hit
Other yvlog Forms
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yvlog History and Origins
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of bracket1
Example Sentences
It is possible that countries could be very broadly bracketed into different levels of a basically universal tariff.
They grabbed the No. 1 overall seed, remained on the West Coast for their regional and were placed in a bracket that has no conference tournament champions remaining in the regional semifinals.
Philip Ingram, a former military intelligence officer with the British Army, told the BBC that similar information "falls firmly into the bracket of what would have been classified top secret".
Minutes later, he drills new brackets and screws into the wobbly legs of a few restaurant chairs.
Here’s a printable version of the men’s bracket.
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