bracket
/ˈbɹækɪt/ verb C2- 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.
- To mark distinctly for special treatment.
- To set aside, discount, ignore.
- 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.
He/she/it brackets · Past bracketed · Past participle bracketed · -ing form bracketing
Verb forms
- Base form
- bracket
- He/she/it
- brackets
- Past
- bracketed
- Past participle
- bracketed
- -ing form
- bracketing
From the library
Miss Stacy’s photograph occupied the place of honor, and Anne made a sentimental point of keeping fresh flowers on the bracket under it.
He was no longer astonished when he searched on to find in the register this note, placed in a bracket against his name:
He compared the writing in the bracket with the writing of the certificate placed beneath Morrel’s petition, and discovered that the note in the bracket was the same writing as the certificate—that is to say, was in Villefort’s handwriting.
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