Word: bracket

Category: bracket

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Related words: bracket

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Synonyms: bracket

eyeglass

Translations: bracket

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spanish
Translations:
paréntesis
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german
Translations:
klammer, konsole, halter
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french
Translations:
support, crochet, console, sommier, parenthèse
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portuguese
Translations:
grampo, suporte, parêntese
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dutch
Translations:
nietje, klamp, kramp, haakje
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russian
Translations:
дужка, накладка, скобка, бра, кронштейн
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norwegian
Translations:
konsoll
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swedish
Translations:
parentes
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finnish
Translations:
pidike, pidin, luokittaa
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czech
Translations:
závorka, nosič, konzola, podpěra
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polish
Translations:
konsola, nawias, wspornik, podpórka, kroksztyn, kinkiet, klamra
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hungarian
Translations:
konzol
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greek
Translations:
αγκύλη
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ukrainian
Translations:
кронштейн, скобка, дужка, бра
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estonian
Translations:
rühmitama
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croatian
Translations:
spajalica, podupirač, konzola
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romanian
Translations:
acoladă

The meaning and "use of": bracket

noun
  • each of a pair of marks [ ] used to enclose words or figures so as to separate them from the context. - symbols are given in brackets
  • a category of people or things that are similar or fall between specified limits. - those in a high income bracket
  • a right-angled support attached to and projecting from a wall for holding a shelf, lamp, or other object. - One of York's free-standing gas lamps in the small road off Lawrence Street was to be replaced with an up-to-date electric mercury discharge lamp attached to a wall bracket .
  • the distance between two artillery shots fired either side of the target to establish range. - The front edges of all example target units are within the same range bracket , and unit A is the main target.
verb
  • enclose (words or figures) in brackets. - the relevant data are included as bracketed points
  • place (one or more people or things) in the same category or group. - he is sometimes bracketed with the “new wave” of film directors
  • hold or attach (something) by means of a right-angled support. - pipes should be bracketed
  • establish the range of (a target) by firing two preliminary shots, one short of the target and the other beyond it. - You stand up, which is the exhilarating part, to see the fall of shot; then you adjust - add, drop, left, right - till you have the target bracketed .

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