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Etymology

bragget, probably from Middle French braguette.

Noun

bracket (plural brackets)

  1. Item attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
  2. Generically any of "(", ")", "[", "]", "{", "}", and, in the area of computer languages, "<", ">".
  3. "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
  4. (Technical) "[" and "]" specifically - opposed to the other forms which have their own technical names.
  5. (sports)
    1. printed diagram of games in a tournament
    2. prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes
  6. one of several ranges of numbers
    tax bracket, age bracket

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Punctuation

Derived terms

Verb

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

Translations

To bound on both sides, to surround as enclosing with brackets
  • Bulgarian: слагам в скоби bg(bg)

 

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