bracket
/ˈbɹækɪt/
bracket noun: a fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf. Also the alternative form of bragget.
Noun
bracket (plural brackets)
- A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
- Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
- To determine if your frame has this bottom bracket type, look for a notched and possibly knurled lockring on the left side (the side without the chainrings).2005, Todd Downs, The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance & Repair for Road and Mountain bikes, →ISBN
- Not only does the attachment on the tooth surface (called a bracket) allow the tooth to be moved vertically or tilted, but also a force couple can be generated by the interaction between the bracket and an archwire running through the bracket.2013, Laura Mitchell, An Introduction to Orthodontics, →ISBN, page 220
- A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
- The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
- “(” and “)” specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
- “[” and “]” specifically, as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
- A diagram of games in a tournament.
- A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
- One of several ranges of numbers.
- tax bracket, age bracket
- taxpayers in the $50,000 to $70,000 bracket
- A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
- Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
- The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
- a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench.
- Synonyms:
- benchmark
Verb
bracket (third-person singular simple present brackets, present participle bracketing, simple past and past participle bracketed)
- To support by means of mechanical brackets.
- To enclose in typographical brackets.
- To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.
- To place in the same category.
- Because they didn’t have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year-olds with the eight-year-olds.
- Some villain who knows nothing about it comes into it for money and so the labours of honest mediums get discounted. The public very naturally brackets them all together.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Introduces Some Very Physical Phenomena”, in The Land of Mist, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1926, →OCLC, page 158
- To mark distinctly for special treatment.
- 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.
- 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
- To gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.
- 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.
- 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.
Also used as
bracket is also the alternative form of bragget.
bracket meaning in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada
bracket in Hindi
- item attached to a wall to hold up a shelf
- कोष्ठक koṣṭhak
bracket in Telugu
- బ్రాకెట్, బ్రాకెట్టు
bracket in Malayalam
- ബ്രാക്കറ്റ്, ബ്രാകറ്റ്
bracket in Kannada
- ಬ್ರಾಕೆಟ್
More languagesFewer languages
- bracket in Gujarati
- કૌંસ કરવા માટે
- bracket in Sinhala
- වරහන් warahan
- bracket in Nepali
- कोष्ठक गर्न
- bracket in Arabic
- قَوْس qaws, شَرِيحَة šarīḥa
- bracket in Vietnamese
- dấu ngoặc đơn
Examples of bracket in a sentence
- My ideal bracket of temperature ranges from the sixties up to the nineties.
- When interpolating an explanatory gloss, please enclose it in square brackets to make clear that it is interpolated.
- Tom always used the grid method for expanding brackets.
Synonyms of bracket
Forms of bracket
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | brackets |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | brackets |
| present participle | bracketing |
| past participle | bracketed |
| past | bracketed |
Origin of bracket
From earlier bragget, *bracket, from Middle English *braget, *braket (attested in braket nail), from Old French braguette (“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches, one's fly”), a diminutive of Old French brague (“knickers, britches”), from Old Occitan braga, from Latin brāca (“pants”), from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, from Proto-Germanic *brāks, an early form of Proto-Germanic *brōks (“leggings, breeches, trousers”).
Words formed from bracket
- angle bracket
- banana bracket
- birch bracket
- bottom bracket
- bracket buster
- bracket clock
- bracket creep
- bracketer
- bracket fungus
- bracketless
- bracketlike
- bracketology
- bracket race
- bracket racer
- bracket racing
- bracketry
- bracketwise
- brackety
- broket
- bulge bracket
- corner bracket
- curly bracket
- curly-bracket language
- diamond bracket
- gas bracket
- hair bracket
- hooked bracket
- income bracket
- income tax bracket
- Iverson bracket
- large curly bracket
- left bracket
- lenticular bracket
- Lie bracket
- multibracket
- pointy bracket
- price bracket
- right bracket
- round bracket
- shelf bracket
- square bracket
- superbracket
- tax bracket
- Toda bracket
- tortoise shell bracket
- unbracket
Phrases with bracket
Words that rhyme with bracket
Questions about bracket
- What does bracket mean?
- Bracket means a fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
- What is bracket in Hindi?
- Bracket in Hindi is कोष्ठक (koṣṭhak). See Bracket meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bracket?
- Bracket can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce bracket?
- Bracket is pronounced /ˈbɹækɪt/.
- What is the plural of bracket?
- The plural of bracket is brackets.
Words near bracket in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bracket (page history and authors); bracket (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bracket (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bracket (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bracket (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bracket (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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