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Bracket   /brˈækɪt/   Listen
Bracket

noun
1.
A category falling within certain defined limits.
2.
Either of two punctuation marks ('<' or '>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material.  Synonym: angle bracket.
3.
Either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material.  Synonym: square bracket.
4.
A support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf).  Synonym: wall bracket.
verb
(past & past part. bracketed; pres. part. bracketing)
1.
Support with brackets.
2.
Place into brackets.  Synonym: bracket out.
3.
Classify or group.



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"Bracket" Quotes from Famous Books



... but not in the direction of the prison. He turned into a side street, at the corner of which was a broken lamp bracket used for hanging a man not a week ago. He glanced up at it as he passed, recognizing perhaps that he was as a skater on thin ice, his safety entirely dependent upon his agility, as he made his way to the flare of light which came from ...
— The Light That Lures • Percy Brebner
... and folding tables and camp chairs, or if you want to be real rustic and quaint, have Shad here knock some white birch ones together, and probably the city folks will admire them more than anything you could buy. Lay in a stock of candles and bracket lamps. I'd make them bring up their own bedding if I were you, 'cause that would be the only nuisance you'd have to ...
— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester
... The text bracket sequence: <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> appears both before and after the actual body of the Etext. This allows including an arbitrary prologue and epilogue to ...
— People of Africa • Edith A. How
... and cider in their pannikins, and the sheer enjoyment of life lit up their frank, honest faces. Now, they lingered at table chatting, in Breton tongue, on women and marriage. A china statuette of the Virgin Mary was fastened on a bracket against the midship partition, in the place of honour. This patron saint of our sailors was rather antiquated, and painted with very simple art; yet these porcelain images live much longer than real men, and her red and blue robe still seemed very fresh in the midst of the sombre greys ...
— An Iceland Fisherman • Pierre Loti
... coffee. Many bring meagre and unwholesome lunches; more dine on cake, pastry, and confectionery. These ill-taught girls are just as prone to sin against their bodies as the better-taught children of the rich. If employers would give them something substantial at midday, and furnish small bracket seats which could be pulled out and pushed back within a second of time, they would find their business sustained by a corps of comfortable, cheerful, healthful employes; and such a humane, sensible policy certainly ought to be sustained by all who ...
— Without a Home • E. P. Roe


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