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square-bracketing

square-bracketing is the present participle and gerund of square-bracket.

Meaning of square-bracket

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To enclose in square brackets.
    • Scotland's geographical location (Map 1), projecting northwest from the main land-mass of Europe, and its wide variety of habitats are the principal factors responsible for the diversity of the 449 species (excluding those square-bracketed – see Chapter 11) currently on the Scottish list.1986, Valerie M. Thom, “Scotland – its avifauna and geography”, in Birds in Scotland, London: T & AD Poyser, published 2011, →ISBN, page 15

Questions about square-bracketing

What is square-bracketing the present participle and gerund of?
Square-bracketing is the present participle and gerund of square-bracket.

Words near square-bracketing in the dictionary

  1. square yard
  2. square yards
  3. Square-1
  4. square-bracket
  5. square-bracketed
  6. square-bracketing
  7. square-brackets
  8. square-cube law
  9. square-dance
  10. square-danced
  11. square-dances

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