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Bracket

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Noun

1. bracket

a category falling within certain defined limits

2. angle bracket, bracket

either of two punctuation marks (<' or >') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material

3. bracket, square bracket

either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material

4. bracket, wall bracket

a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf)

Verb

5. bracket

support with brackets

Example Sentences:
'bracket bookshelves'

6. bracket, bracket out

place into brackets

Example Sentences:
'Please bracket this remark'

7. bracket

classify or group

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bracket

see synonyms of bracket
noun
1. 
an L-shaped or other support fixed to a wall to hold a shelf, etc
2. 
one or more wall shelves carried on brackets
3. architecture
a support projecting from the side of a wall or other structure
See also corbel, ancon, console2
4. Also called: square bracket
either of a pair of characters, [ ], used to enclose a section of writing or printing to separate it from the main text
5.  a general name for parenthesis, square bracket, brace (sense 6)
6. 
a group or category falling within or between certain defined limits
the lower income bracket
7. 
the distance between two preliminary shots of artillery fire in range-finding
8. 
a skating figure consisting of two arcs meeting at a point, tracing the shape ⋎
verb -kets, -keting or -keted (transitive)
9. 
to fix or support by means of a bracket or brackets
10. 
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
11. 
to couple or join (two lines of text, etc) with a brace
12. (often foll by with)
to group or class together
to bracket Marx with the philosophers
13. 
to adjust (artillery fire) until the target is hit

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Bracket

see synonyms of bracket
noun
1. 
an architectural support projecting from a wall, as a corbel
2. 
any angle-shaped support, esp. one in the form of a right triangle
3. 
a wall shelf or shelves held up by brackets
4. 
a wall fixture, as for a small electric lamp
5. 
either of the pair of signs [ ], or sometimes < >, used to enclose a word or words inserted as for explanation, quantities to be taken as a single quantity, etc.
6. 
the part of a classified, graded grouping that falls within specified limits
the $30,000 to $40,000 income bracket
7. 
a. 
the interval between the ranges of two rounds of artillery fire, as one over and the other short of the target, used to find the correct range
b. 
such a pair of rounds
verb transitive
8. 
to provide or support with brackets
9. 
to enclose within brackets
10. 
to group, classify, or associate together
Grant and Lee are bracketed in history
11. 
to establish a bracket for (an artillery target)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bracket

see synonyms of bracket
n.
1.
a. A simple rigid structure in the shape of an L, one arm of which is fixed to a vertical surface, the other projecting horizontally to support a shelf or other weight.
b. A small shelf or shelves supported by such structures.
2. Architecture A decorative or weight-bearing structural unit, two sides of which form a right angle with one arm flush against a wall and the other flush beneath a projecting surface, such as eaves or a bay window.
3. A wall-anchored fixture for gas or electricity.
4.
a. A square bracket.
b. An angle bracket.
c. Mathematics See brace.
5. Chiefly British One of a pair of parentheses.
6. A classification or grouping, especially within a sequence of numbers or grades, as a category of incomes sharing the same tax rate.
7. A treelike diagram showing the matchups between competitors in different rounds of a tournament.
8.
a. The distance between two impacting shells, the first aimed beyond a target and the second aimed short of it, used to determine the range for artillery fire.
b. The shells fired in such a manner.
tr.v. brack·et·ed, brack·et·ing, brack·ets
1. To furnish or support with a bracket or brackets.
2. To place within or as if within brackets.
3. To classify or group together.
4. To include or exclude by establishing specific boundaries.
5. To fire beyond and short of (a target) in order to determine artillery range.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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