单词 | bracket |
释义 | Word Frequency bracket(ˈbrækɪt) noun 1. an L-shaped or other support fixed to a wall to hold a shelf, etc 2. one or more wall shelves carried on brackets 3. architecture a support projecting from the side of a wall or other structure See also corbel, ancon, console24. Also called: square bracket either of a pair of characters, [ ], used to enclose a section of writing or printing to separate it from the main text 5. a general name for parenthesis, square bracket, brace (sense 6) 6. a group or category falling within or between certain defined limits the lower income bracket 7. the distance between two preliminary shots of artillery fire in range-finding 8. a skating figure consisting of two arcs meeting at a point, tracing the shape ⋎ verbWord forms: -kets, -keting or -keted (transitive) 9. to fix or support by means of a bracket or brackets 10. to put (written or printed matter) in brackets, esp as being irrelevant, spurious, or bearing a separate relationship of some kind to the rest of the text 11. to couple or join (two lines of text, etc) with a brace 12. (often foll by with) to group or class together to bracket Marx with the philosophers 13. to adjust (artillery fire) until the target is hit Word origin C16: from Old French braguette codpiece, diminutive of bragues breeches, from Old Provençal braga, from Latin brāca breeches |
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