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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 Word Forms
- ܲ··· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of bracket1
Word History and Origins
Origin of bracket1
Example Sentences
The 32 teams selected for Division 1 will get to say they were part of the toughest bracket ever.
The Liberals have proposed a slight tax cut for those in the lowest bracket, who are due to see their rate reduce from 15% to 14%.
In the respondents’ additional answers that Klongpayabal described, the 72-year-old said she was in a lower-income bracket, and while she sometimes talks to her daughter about money, she’s still “knocking her door down.”
Many parody accounts on X identify their parody nature in brackets at the end of user names, but this is not a fool-proof measure.
It is possible that countries could be very broadly bracketed into different levels of a basically universal tariff.
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