bracket — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.

2. Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.

   Esempi

   To determine if your frame has this bottom bracket type, look for a notched and possibly knurled lockring on the left side (the side without the chainrings).

   Altri esempi (1)

   Not only does the attachment on the tooth surface (called a bracket) allow the tooth to be moved vertically or tilted, but also a force couple can be generated by the interaction between the bracket and an archwire running through the bracket.

3. A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.

4. The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.

5. Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc. “(” and “)” specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.

   Uso

   • uso britannico

6. Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc. “[” and “]” specifically, as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.

   Uso

   • uso statunitense

7. A diagram of games in a tournament.

8. A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.

9. One of several ranges of numbers.

   Esempi

   tax bracket, age bracket

   taxpayers in the $50,000 to $70,000 bracket

10. A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.

11. Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.

12. The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.

13. a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench.

    Uso

    • obsoleto

Verbo

1. To support by means of mechanical brackets.

2. To enclose in typographical brackets.

3. To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.

4. To place in the same category.

   Esempi

   Because they didn’t have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year-olds with the eight-year-olds.

   Altri esempi (1)

   Some villain who knows nothing about it comes into it for money and so the labours of honest mediums get discounted. The public very naturally brackets them all together.

5. To mark distinctly for special treatment.

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

6. To set aside, discount, ignore.

   Esempi

   SIL got access to academic legitimacy; linguists bracketed the evangelical engine that drives SIL because they got access to data and tools.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.

Sostantivo

1. a category falling within certain defined limits

   Termini più generali

   set

2. either of two punctuation marks (‘’) used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material

   Sinonimi

   angle bracket

   Termini più generali

   punctuationpunctuation mark

3. either of two punctuation marks (‘[’ or ‘]’) used to enclose textual material

   Sinonimi

   square bracket

   Termini più generali

   punctuationpunctuation mark

4. a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf)

   Sinonimi

   wall bracket

   Termini più generali

   support

Verbo

1. support with brackets

   Termini più generali

   holdsupportsustainhold up

   Esempi

   bracket bookshelves

2. place into brackets

   Sinonimi

   bracket out

   Termini più generali

   editredact

   Esempi

   Please bracket this remark

3. classify or group

   Termini più generali

   group