bracket
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[edit] Etymology
bragget, probably from Middle French braguette.
[edit] Noun
bracket (plural brackets)
- A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
- (engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
- Generically, any of "(", ")", "[", "]", "{", "}", and, in the area of computer languages, "<", ">".
- "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
- (technical) "[" and "]" specifically - opposed to the other forms of which have their own technical names.
- (sports)
- Printed diagram of games in a tournament.
- Prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
- One of several ranges of numbers.
- tax bracket, age bracket
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Terms derived from bracket (noun)
[edit] Translations
item attached to a wall to hold up a shelf
generically any of "(", ")", "[", "]", "{", "}", "<" and ">"
"(" and ")"
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technical: "[" and "]" specifically
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sport: printed diagram of games in a tournament
sport: prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament
one of several ranges of numbers
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- See also Wikisaurus:bracket
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[edit] Verb
bracket (third-person singular simple present brackets, present participle bracketing, simple past and past participle bracketed)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1992, Tom Burns, Erving Goffman, page 292:
- 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.
- 2009, Michael Erard, “Holy Grammar, Inc.”, in Search Magazine, July–August 2009:
- (photography) 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.
- (philosophy, phenomenology) 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.
[edit] Translations
To bound on both sides, to surround as enclosing with brackets
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