bracket

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Hyponyms 1.3.2 See also 1.3.3 Derived terms 1.3.4 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations

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  Rhymes: -ækɪt

[edit] Etymology

bragget, probably from Middle French braguette.

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bracket (plural brackets)

1. Item attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
2. Generically any of "(", ")", "[", "]", "{", "}", and, in the area of computer languages, "<", ">".
3. "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
4. (Technical) "[" and "]" specifically - opposed to the other forms which have their own technical names.
5. (sports)
   1. printed diagram of games in a tournament
   2. prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes
6. one of several ranges of numbers

   tax bracket, age bracket

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• See also Wikisaurus:bracket

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Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( 〈 〉 ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … )

exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )

interrobang ( ‽ ) question mark ( ? ) quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )

semicolon ( ; ) slash/solidus ( / ) ( ⁄ ) space (   ) interpunct ( · )

[edit] Derived terms

• age bracket
• angle bracket
• curly bracket
• gas bracket
• income bracket, income tax bracket, tax bracket
• price bracket
• round bracket
• shelf bracket
• square bracket

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[edit] Verb

to bracket (third-person singular simple present brackets, present participle bracketing, simple past and past participle bracketed)

1. To bound on both sides, to surround as enclosing with brackets.

   I tried to hit the bullseye by first bracketing it with two shots and then splitting the difference with my third, but I missed.

2. To place in the same category.

   Because the didn't have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year olds with the eight-year olds.

3. To mark distinctly for special treatment.
   • 1992, Tom Burns, Erving Goffman, page 292:

     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.

4. To set aside, discount, ignore.
   • 2009, Michael Erard, “Holy Grammar, Inc.”, in Search Magazine, July–August 2009:

     SIL got access to academic legitimacy; linguists bracketed the evangelical engine that drives SIL because they got access to data and tools.

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