Definition of bracket in English:

bracket

nounPlural brackets ˈbrakɪtˈbrækɪt

1Each of a pair of marks ( ) [ ] { } 〈 〉 used to enclose words or figures so as to separate them from the context.
括号（（）{}〈〉中的一个）
symbols are given in brackets
符号在括号中给出。
Example sentencesExamples
- Total available marks are given in brackets, followed by the marks actually awarded.
- How refreshing it is to see that most of the adverts for farmland are given in acres often with the hectarage given in brackets.
- The figures in brackets are the maximum to which the ship can be upgraded.
- So is it possible to get real outcomes when we're talking about so many people, so many words, so many brackets around sentences and the like?
- The numbers according to the older 64-section scheme are given in brackets though not used.
- For a literal translation of the Ahadith, the words within brackets should be omitted.
- In this and subsequent figures, brackets identify major groups of seed plants.
- The words in brackets, ‘ignoring the possibility of an appeal out of time with permission’, point to such an application being different in kind.
- The figures in brackets are arrived at classifying the most common Italian openings into these three groups.
- Suddenly, nicely rounded figures like e19,000 were appearing in the price columns, with the figure in punts in brackets adjoining.
- Some of the dates listed are separated by brackets and are a good illustration of the various contradictory claims made by members of the Abashiri group.
- The words in brackets indicate the opinion presented by the computer in Versions 2 & 4.
- If we take the words in brackets which are not contested, that leaves really two points in the section.
- One of the fibers that compose the TDT is marked with a bracket.
- In the following summary a coupling ratio of 4 has been used with the figures in brackets corresponding to a coupling ratio of 4.7.
- If members look at the clause, they will see that it has the word ‘New’ written there, then, in brackets, the word ‘unanimous’.
- The figures in brackets identify the UK's ten biggest mortgage lenders.
- For each of the top poets, the number of votes obtained is given in brackets after his or her place number.
- The numbers in brackets are the marks that were written in the margins of the Gersaint catalog.
- The third column contains pitch pairs in brackets.
Synonyms
parenthesis, brace
round bracket, square bracket, angle bracket, curly bracket
2with adjective or noun modifier A category of people or things that are similar or fall between specified limits.
同等级的人（或事）
those in a high income bracket
同属高收入阶层。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Rockwell, also in Earls Court, is another newcomer falling into the bed-and-brasserie bracket.
- Replying to a question, Khalidi said Muslims in the US are a highly educated group and fall in the high-income bracket.
- The Bamfords have stopped contributing directly to the Tory party, although free helicopter and plane rides fall into the bracket of payments in kind.
- Agar said: ‘Chris falls into the same bracket as the three who've already come in.’
- Top bracket taxpayers can earn 7% with National Savings.
- Only Craig Forsyth, who has been on the bench three times, falls into the same bracket.
- There's a lot of welterweight prospects coming through at the moment, like Matthew Macklin and David Barnes, people who Matthew deserves to be classed in that same bracket with.
- As at the last election, one percent of voters had active party membership, with the biggest age bracket listed as those over 60.
- There will always be leaders and followers and it has to be said that Explosions in the Sky fall into the second bracket.
- And the 17-24 age bracket accounts for about one in four accidents on Britain's roads, despite representing only one in six drivers.
- This is not just another way of looking at self-identification by class, or economic bracket, or being in the in crowd.
- With the obtaining high poverty levels and the consequent growing number of people falling into the vulnerable bracket, it would be grave to lose the support of co-operating partners.
- I don't think a person's economic bracket ought to be a dating criterion, especially since it isn't causing a problem between the two of us.
- The result was simple: the chances of a child from a poor family making it into the highest income bracket fell by 40 per cent.
- South Africa and Pakistan rate amongst the top bracket teams in both forms of the game.
- The defendant in my view lacked frankness in the witness box and I can understand Mr Banner's submission on behalf of the Secretary of State that this is an upper bracket case and I tend to lean to that view.
- The new Athlon XP-M 2100 + falls into the low-power bracket for thin-and-light notebooks that require a cooler processor.
- Michael Chabon, author of Wonder Boys, is careful to place his Summerland within the new and lucrative publishing bracket of ‘all ages’.
- For tax planning purposes, a general partnership can be a useful method of diverting income from high bracket parents to their children.
- About 800,000 Irish women fall into that age bracket.
Synonyms
group, grouping, category, categorization, grade, grading, classification, class, set, section, division, order, batch, cohort, list
3A right-angled support attached to a wall for holding a shelf, lamp, or other object.
（固定在墙上并从墙上成直角伸出，用于安放搁板、灯或其他物体的）托架，托座
Example sentencesExamples
- The C&O used portable dual Mars lights on the forward end of its RDC's, hanging them on a bracket attached to the door and powered via an extension cord.
- 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.
- There was a firepit for warmth in Winter, and brackets on the white-painted walls which held oil lamps.
- It is ornately Victorian in design and comes with a pair of brackets so that it can be attached to a wall.
- The combination of features were that you have a wall bracket which is U-shaped, it screws directly onto a wall, and then there is a support bracket, also U-shaped, which folds down.
- The seven companions were left in silence - the only light stuttering from oily torches in brackets along the walls, as there were no windows.
- Even failure to fix a loose slate, or remove a wall bracket for hanging flowers could land a homeowner behind bars, according to official warnings sent to householders in Co Meath.
- Check the deal you are offered, as wall mounting brackets can add several hundred euro to an attractive price.
- At the top of the stairwell were two great wooden doors, possibly with some sort of carving on them, though it was hard to see in the dim half-light cast by the torches, which hung in brackets along the walls.
- On the center lamp the decorative arm brackets are modeled on both sides.
- We are reviewing all the brackets which support the lights to assess whether they are acceptable.
- An adhesive strip on the back wall attaches the bracket to the support surface.
- This corridor was lit only be well-spaced torches burning in brackets on the walls, rather than the ornate oil lamps that hung from the ceilings of the more public parts of the palace.
- He himself had tiny concerns about the accuracy of his numbers and the possibility that the weight and limited angular freedom of the supporting brackets would somehow cause a problem.
- The store would be one of only a handful across the country selling shelves, brackets and other DIY items throughout the night.
- Use wall mounted baskets attached to shelf brackets for an attractive shelf that can hold bathroom supplies or home office paperwork.
- A bracket on the wall beside a window, still with its adjustment screw, remains of where Gregory's telescope was set up.
- She had even taken the precaution of chaining the baskets to brackets on the outside wall of her house, but the thieves still managed to take them.
- Aside from these there were some miscellaneous mounting brackets / supports, thermal compound, and some screws.
- Two unlit torches were attached to brackets in the wall either side of the sacred flame.
Synonyms
support, prop, stay, batten, joist, buttress
rest, mounting, holder, shelf, rack, frame
4Military
The distance between two artillery shots fired either side of the target to establish range.
〔军〕夹叉射击（指为测距向目标试射的远弹和近弹）；夹中目标（指夹叉射击时远近两弹落点间的距离）
Example sentencesExamples
- The front edges of all example target units are within the same range bracket, and unit A is the main target.
- In the hope of obtaining a rapid and overwhelming fire, the French artillery ranges only for a long bracket.
5US A diagram representing the sequence of matches in a sports tournament, especially as used for making predictions about its outcome.
with the March Madness tournament half the fun is filling out your bracket
Example sentencesExamples
- If you have a team left on the St. Louis bracket other than Georgia Tech we are extremely impressed …
- Fill out your brackets yet?
- In the AFC, the Jets and Broncos can round out the bracket by beating St. Louis and Indy, respectively.
- We will begin our two-part preview with bracket one, which kicked things off yesterday with Florida and Nebraska picking up victories.
- In the loser's bracket, I think it's a coin flip.
- The right side of the College World Series brackets has been finalized.
- Here's a look at all the clubs in bracket two …
- I think we can agree the ease of the FSU bracket will get them a spot in the Super Regional.
- It's not surprising that both of us pick Tulane to win Bracket 2 as they have been atop many rankings for a long time.
- We'd be more psyched about the Manhattan win if well over half of our pool hadn't picked that bracket.
- We don't know about you, but after a ridiculous weekend of hoop, our brackets are a mess.
- Was the Sweet 16 bittersweet or oh-so-good for your brackets?
6the bracketBritish dated, informal A person's nose or jaw.
〈非正式，旧〉鼻子；下巴
a quick punch up the bracket
Example sentencesExamples
- I didnt know, my dad used to say it to me, You need a good punch up the bracket!
- It can be a relatively mild insult among friends, you should avoid saying it to strangers unless you want a smack in the mush or a punch up the bracket.

verbbrackets, bracketed, bracketingˈbrakɪtˈbrækɪt

[with object]

1Enclose (words or figures) in brackets.
把（词或数字）置于括号内
I have bracketed the phrase ‘of contrary qualities’ in the translation, since it is not explicit in the Greek
Example sentencesExamples
- He dutifully read his speech from start to finish and when he came to the conclusion, his speechwriter had bracketed an instruction for him to now ‘pull the cord’.
- Having bracketed the term, the author reverts to the word ‘lesbian’ in describing these Sapphic moderns throughout the text.
- Sometimes she would bracket a passage at the beginning and the end.
- Perl code can be placed inside a component, bracketed by .
- My mother would immediately take out a pencil and bracket familiar names.
- With the illustrations the situation is worse, for they are not numbered or listed anywhere, and there is no indication of any kind, marginal or bracketed, of the figure corresponding to a description in the text.
- In what follows the LM's lections will be bracketed, but the RCL ones not, although it brackets the numerals of its Proper Sundays.
- Indeed Florio, in his dictionary of 1598, bracketed the two terms when he wrote: ‘a kinde of clouted cream called a foole or a trifle.’
- Arrowhead indicates muscle DT1, arrow indicates LT4, and LT1-3 are bracketed.
- Indeed, I have bracketed the word ‘study’ with quote marks throughout this column because the word ‘survey’ seems more appropriate.
- I quote this short poem in full (the bracketed letters, which refer the reader to Scriptural verses listed in the margins, are reproduced from the original text).
- It should be noted that the partial manuscript was laser printed, and it included several handwritten remarks, which I have bracketed.
1. 1.1Mathematics Enclose (a complex expression) in brackets to denote that the whole of the expression rather than just a part of it has a particular relation, such as multiplication or division, to another expression.
  〔数〕用括号括
  Example sentencesExamples
  At each stage, we bracket together the symbols with the lowest probabilities, and re-order the list.
  The optimal value we are searching for is bracketed between a and b, and M is the point with the highest function value found so far.
2. 1.2 Put (a belief or matter) aside temporarily.
  暂不考虑；放在一边
  he bracketed off the question of God himself
  他把上帝是否存在这个问题暂时撂到了一边。
  Example sentencesExamples
  That said, at some point timeliness and public import must be bracketed for an evaluation of the book's contributions to theory, method, and substantive work in the sociology of religion.
  Temporarily bracketing the rather ominous perspective that Shaviro brings to this sense of connection, we find that networks involve a different kind of habitation in the social field.
  But because they're paid, because they're essentially advertisements, we also tend to tune them out, or at least bracket them off in our minds.
  The interviewer, who was trained in coding procedures, both transcribed and coded the interviews, taking care to bracket her personal biases and beliefs.
  For instance, the words ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’ which were coined in Rio as the basis for North-South partnership were all bracketed, which means they have not been agreed upon.
  He contended that bracketing enables one to objectively describe the phenomena under study.
  Content is bracketed off and/or made subordinate to form.
  No matter from which angle we analyze this theme, the other angles can never be completely bracketed out.
  The scholars' doctrinal underpinnings can be bracketed and later assessed when critical methods of examining biblical texts are shared across denominational and inter-religious lines.
  In our encounters with world music, aesthetic issues cannot be isolated and bracketed off.
  Rather, it has been bracketed in the interests of examining or critiquing matters of authenticity and legitimacy in respect of what is claimed as part of a specifically indigenous past.
  Targets for increasing foreign aid and protecting wildlife are opposed, and huge sections of text on the clashes between environmental protection and free trade remain bracketed.
  The demands of ordinary fellow feeling and conventional morality can be bracketed in service of the great sacred cause.
  They bracket the most important questions, the political, legal, and cultural questions that ought to lead Americans to reject state killing.
  Yet I found myself bracketing off various encounters, like the one with the taxi driver above, and refusing those experiences entry into the frame of my analysis.
  However, for the sake of this inquiry, it is necessary to bracket any Pauline understanding of justification.
  But the latter, too, is bracketed off, no less surely and to Stead's greater cost.
  All positing of the real, as opposed to the intentional, existence of the world must be bracketed.
  Those inclined to seek out a kind of mutuality among religious traditions have, in a sense, bracketed any highly dogmatic understanding of Christ.
  Hitherto neglected objects and unseen dangers suddenly swim into obscene visibility, human priorities are bracketed off, replaced by a world organised around the imperatives of canine or insect existence.
2Place (one or more people or things) in the same category or group.
把…归入同一类；将…相提并论
he is sometimes bracketed with the ‘new wave’ of film directors
他有时被归为“新潮派”导演。
Example sentencesExamples
- Burger's presence on the drive and his allround work-rate will also be crucial to the Boks as they go out to prove they deserve to be bracketed with their great southern rivals in the top two of world rugby two years out from the next World Cup.
- Pray, what has the BJP done in domestic or foreign policy to not be bracketed in the same league as its political opponents?
- York has its own special identity and should not be bracketed with Leeds, the city's Labour MP Hugh Bayley has told the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly.
- But while he is respectful of his former Leicester teammates, he hated being bracketed as an ‘impact player’.
- This prize was jointly awarded to Maclaurin, Euler and Daniel Bernoulli, bracketing Maclaurin with the top two mathematicians of his day.
- I don't think he, a respectable Conservative chairman of a Parish Council, was too pleased at being bracketed with a Stalinist!
- Terse, spare, laconic, elliptic; at its sharpest it is comparable with Hemingway's, a writer with whom Hammett is often bracketed.
- So much has the Nazi period become the incarnation of evil that even suggesting that other absolutisms, including extreme racist nationalisms, can be bracketed with it seems to diminish the horror of the Third Reich.
- They argued that voluntary clubs, like charities, should not be bracketed alongside profit-making businesses when it comes to rates valuations.
- Previous studies had suggested that people automatically bracket one another in terms of race, sex and age.
- If the company is unwilling to raise prices, it needs to be clearer about why it should be bracketed alongside other premium brands in consumers' eyes.
- He should be bracketed with dictators as Hitler and Stalin for crimes against humanity.
- They can be bracketed with Canada, the only side Scotland have beaten in 14 friendlies under Vogts.
- Portugal cannot simply be bracketed alongside the two other sides that the Africans will play in Germany.
- He was the subject of hagiographies in many languages, and was often bracketed along with Bismarck, Gladstone and Salisbury in the pantheon of world statesmen.
- ‘He's just come out of the juniors and already he is being bracketed in the same league as Muhammad Ali,’ he said.
- Quite soon the word will be hitting the Rough Guides, the late departures, the online travel sites and eventually we'll be bracketed up there with Scandinavia as a really expensive destination.
- The spread of negligence liability would not have to result in the broadening of the traditional category of mens rea, and would not mean that intention, recklessness, and negligence would henceforth be bracketed together.
- Bizarre to record, after all that ‘plunder’ talk he seems to think that ‘promised foreign investment’ is a good thing, to be bracketed with peace and all.
- How about being widely bracketed in doubles betting with all the other leading candidates in next Saturday's Cox Plate and the Melbourne Cup?
Synonyms
group, classify, class, categorize, grade, list, sort, set, place, assign
couple, pair, twin, yoke, put together, set side by side, regard as the same, regard as identical, liken, compare
3Hold or attach (something) by means of a right-angled support.
给…装托架；用托架托住
pipes should be bracketed
必须用托架托住管子。
Example sentencesExamples
- The bracketed shelf above the door was probably a later addition, as were the Doric columns flanking the sidelights.
- The only known blowers use a complex flexible rubber conduit assembly that needs to be bracketed and clamped at its outlet end to maintain its appropriate position.
- You may need to remove this hose - it is bracketed to the side of the engine and bolted to the power steering pump.
4Military
Establish the range of (a target) by firing two preliminary shots, one short of the target and the other beyond it.
〔军〕采用夹叉射击测定目标距离
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- So we're probably going to have to shoot a number of them to bracket spatially the area where we need to target it so it will fall where we want it to fall.
1. 4.1Photography Establish (the correct exposure) by taking several pictures with slightly more or less exposure.
  〔摄〕曝光量测定（以略高或略低的曝光量拍摄数张照片以便确定正确的曝光量）
  it's always best to bracket your exposures
  Example sentencesExamples
  Fix your focus at a range that will fill the lens with shark, then remember to bracket your exposures in all the excitement!
  No matter which method you choose to use, it is always a good idea to bracket your exposure.
  For insurance, bracket the exposure by using different shutter speeds.
  Remember that infrared film is experimental, so bracket your exposures and be sure to have your film processed by a lab that has worked with infrared before.
  I normally bracket each exposure at least one stop in both directions (underexposure and overexposure).

Origin

Late 16th century: from French braguette or Spanish bragueta 'codpiece, bracket, corbel', from Provençal braga, from Latin braca, (plural) bracae 'breeches'.

This support is apparently via French braguette from Spanish bragueta ‘codpiece, bracket, corbel’. The base is Latin brāca, singular of brācae ‘breeches’; it seems that the architectural bracket may have derived its name from a resemblance to the codpiece of a pair of breeches. An erroneous connection with Latin bracchium ‘arm’ (see bracelet), because of the notion of ‘support’, seems to have affected the sense development.

Rhymes

Blackett, jacket, packet, placket, racket

Definition of bracket in US English:

bracket

nounˈbrækɪtˈbrakit

1Each of a pair of marks [ ] used to enclose words or figures so as to separate them from the context.
括号（（）{}〈〉中的一个）
symbols are given in brackets
符号在括号中给出。
Example sentencesExamples
- For each of the top poets, the number of votes obtained is given in brackets after his or her place number.
- One of the fibers that compose the TDT is marked with a bracket.
- The figures in brackets are the maximum to which the ship can be upgraded.
- How refreshing it is to see that most of the adverts for farmland are given in acres often with the hectarage given in brackets.
- If we take the words in brackets which are not contested, that leaves really two points in the section.
- The figures in brackets are arrived at classifying the most common Italian openings into these three groups.
- The numbers in brackets are the marks that were written in the margins of the Gersaint catalog.
- Some of the dates listed are separated by brackets and are a good illustration of the various contradictory claims made by members of the Abashiri group.
- The third column contains pitch pairs in brackets.
- The words in brackets indicate the opinion presented by the computer in Versions 2 & 4.
- If members look at the clause, they will see that it has the word ‘New’ written there, then, in brackets, the word ‘unanimous’.
- The figures in brackets identify the UK's ten biggest mortgage lenders.
- For a literal translation of the Ahadith, the words within brackets should be omitted.
- Total available marks are given in brackets, followed by the marks actually awarded.
- In this and subsequent figures, brackets identify major groups of seed plants.
- So is it possible to get real outcomes when we're talking about so many people, so many words, so many brackets around sentences and the like?
- The numbers according to the older 64-section scheme are given in brackets though not used.
- The words in brackets, ‘ignoring the possibility of an appeal out of time with permission’, point to such an application being different in kind.
- In the following summary a coupling ratio of 4 has been used with the figures in brackets corresponding to a coupling ratio of 4.7.
- Suddenly, nicely rounded figures like e19,000 were appearing in the price columns, with the figure in punts in brackets adjoining.
Synonyms
parenthesis, brace
2with adjective or noun modifier A category of people or things that are similar or fall between specified limits.
同等级的人（或事）
those in a high income bracket
同属高收入阶层。
Example sentencesExamples
- There's a lot of welterweight prospects coming through at the moment, like Matthew Macklin and David Barnes, people who Matthew deserves to be classed in that same bracket with.
- And the 17-24 age bracket accounts for about one in four accidents on Britain's roads, despite representing only one in six drivers.
- I don't think a person's economic bracket ought to be a dating criterion, especially since it isn't causing a problem between the two of us.
- The result was simple: the chances of a child from a poor family making it into the highest income bracket fell by 40 per cent.
- Michael Chabon, author of Wonder Boys, is careful to place his Summerland within the new and lucrative publishing bracket of ‘all ages’.
- With the obtaining high poverty levels and the consequent growing number of people falling into the vulnerable bracket, it would be grave to lose the support of co-operating partners.
- The defendant in my view lacked frankness in the witness box and I can understand Mr Banner's submission on behalf of the Secretary of State that this is an upper bracket case and I tend to lean to that view.
- This is not just another way of looking at self-identification by class, or economic bracket, or being in the in crowd.
- South Africa and Pakistan rate amongst the top bracket teams in both forms of the game.
- For tax planning purposes, a general partnership can be a useful method of diverting income from high bracket parents to their children.
- About 800,000 Irish women fall into that age bracket.
- Top bracket taxpayers can earn 7% with National Savings.
- There will always be leaders and followers and it has to be said that Explosions in the Sky fall into the second bracket.
- As at the last election, one percent of voters had active party membership, with the biggest age bracket listed as those over 60.
- The Bamfords have stopped contributing directly to the Tory party, although free helicopter and plane rides fall into the bracket of payments in kind.
- The Rockwell, also in Earls Court, is another newcomer falling into the bed-and-brasserie bracket.
- Only Craig Forsyth, who has been on the bench three times, falls into the same bracket.
- Replying to a question, Khalidi said Muslims in the US are a highly educated group and fall in the high-income bracket.
- The new Athlon XP-M 2100 + falls into the low-power bracket for thin-and-light notebooks that require a cooler processor.
- Agar said: ‘Chris falls into the same bracket as the three who've already come in.’
Synonyms
group, grouping, category, categorization, grade, grading, classification, class, set, section, division, order, batch, cohort, list
3A right-angled support attached to and projecting from a wall for holding a shelf, lamp, or other object.
（固定在墙上并从墙上成直角伸出，用于安放搁板、灯或其他物体的）托架，托座
Example sentencesExamples
- Aside from these there were some miscellaneous mounting brackets / supports, thermal compound, and some screws.
- 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.
- At the top of the stairwell were two great wooden doors, possibly with some sort of carving on them, though it was hard to see in the dim half-light cast by the torches, which hung in brackets along the walls.
- An adhesive strip on the back wall attaches the bracket to the support surface.
- The C&O used portable dual Mars lights on the forward end of its RDC's, hanging them on a bracket attached to the door and powered via an extension cord.
- Check the deal you are offered, as wall mounting brackets can add several hundred euro to an attractive price.
- On the center lamp the decorative arm brackets are modeled on both sides.
- He himself had tiny concerns about the accuracy of his numbers and the possibility that the weight and limited angular freedom of the supporting brackets would somehow cause a problem.
- We are reviewing all the brackets which support the lights to assess whether they are acceptable.
- Even failure to fix a loose slate, or remove a wall bracket for hanging flowers could land a homeowner behind bars, according to official warnings sent to householders in Co Meath.
- A bracket on the wall beside a window, still with its adjustment screw, remains of where Gregory's telescope was set up.
- The store would be one of only a handful across the country selling shelves, brackets and other DIY items throughout the night.
- This corridor was lit only be well-spaced torches burning in brackets on the walls, rather than the ornate oil lamps that hung from the ceilings of the more public parts of the palace.
- Two unlit torches were attached to brackets in the wall either side of the sacred flame.
- It is ornately Victorian in design and comes with a pair of brackets so that it can be attached to a wall.
- The seven companions were left in silence - the only light stuttering from oily torches in brackets along the walls, as there were no windows.
- Use wall mounted baskets attached to shelf brackets for an attractive shelf that can hold bathroom supplies or home office paperwork.
- The combination of features were that you have a wall bracket which is U-shaped, it screws directly onto a wall, and then there is a support bracket, also U-shaped, which folds down.
- There was a firepit for warmth in Winter, and brackets on the white-painted walls which held oil lamps.
- She had even taken the precaution of chaining the baskets to brackets on the outside wall of her house, but the thieves still managed to take them.
Synonyms
support, prop, stay, batten, joist, buttress
4Military
The distance between two artillery shots fired either side of the target to establish range.
〔军〕夹叉射击（指为测距向目标试射的远弹和近弹）；夹中目标（指夹叉射击时远近两弹落点间的距离）
Example sentencesExamples
- In the hope of obtaining a rapid and overwhelming fire, the French artillery ranges only for a long bracket.
- The front edges of all example target units are within the same range bracket, and unit A is the main target.
5US A diagram representing the sequence of games in a sports tournament, especially as used for making predictions about its outcome.
with the March Madness tournament half the fun is filling out your bracket
Example sentencesExamples
- We will begin our two-part preview with bracket one, which kicked things off yesterday with Florida and Nebraska picking up victories.
- Fill out your brackets yet?
- Was the Sweet 16 bittersweet or oh-so-good for your brackets?
- We don't know about you, but after a ridiculous weekend of hoop, our brackets are a mess.
- Here's a look at all the clubs in bracket two …
- In the AFC, the Jets and Broncos can round out the bracket by beating St. Louis and Indy, respectively.
- If you have a team left on the St. Louis bracket other than Georgia Tech we are extremely impressed …
- I think we can agree the ease of the FSU bracket will get them a spot in the Super Regional.
- It's not surprising that both of us pick Tulane to win Bracket 2 as they have been atop many rankings for a long time.
- We'd be more psyched about the Manhattan win if well over half of our pool hadn't picked that bracket.
- In the loser's bracket, I think it's a coin flip.
- The right side of the College World Series brackets has been finalized.

verbˈbrækɪtˈbrakit

[with object]

1Enclose (words or figures) in brackets.
把（词或数字）置于括号内
I have bracketed the phrase “of contrary qualities” in the translation, since it is not explicit in the Greek
Example sentencesExamples
- He dutifully read his speech from start to finish and when he came to the conclusion, his speechwriter had bracketed an instruction for him to now ‘pull the cord’.
- Having bracketed the term, the author reverts to the word ‘lesbian’ in describing these Sapphic moderns throughout the text.
- Indeed Florio, in his dictionary of 1598, bracketed the two terms when he wrote: ‘a kinde of clouted cream called a foole or a trifle.’
- Perl code can be placed inside a component, bracketed by .
- In what follows the LM's lections will be bracketed, but the RCL ones not, although it brackets the numerals of its Proper Sundays.
- It should be noted that the partial manuscript was laser printed, and it included several handwritten remarks, which I have bracketed.
- Indeed, I have bracketed the word ‘study’ with quote marks throughout this column because the word ‘survey’ seems more appropriate.
- I quote this short poem in full (the bracketed letters, which refer the reader to Scriptural verses listed in the margins, are reproduced from the original text).
- Sometimes she would bracket a passage at the beginning and the end.
- With the illustrations the situation is worse, for they are not numbered or listed anywhere, and there is no indication of any kind, marginal or bracketed, of the figure corresponding to a description in the text.
- My mother would immediately take out a pencil and bracket familiar names.
- Arrowhead indicates muscle DT1, arrow indicates LT4, and LT1-3 are bracketed.
1. 1.1Mathematics Enclose (a complex expression) in brackets to denote that the whole of the expression rather than just a part of it has a particular relation, such as multiplication or division, to another expression.
  〔数〕用括号括
  Example sentencesExamples
  The optimal value we are searching for is bracketed between a and b, and M is the point with the highest function value found so far.
  At each stage, we bracket together the symbols with the lowest probabilities, and re-order the list.
2. 1.2 Put (a belief or matter) aside temporarily.
  暂不考虑；放在一边
  he bracketed off the question of God
  他把上帝是否存在这个问题暂时撂到了一边。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But because they're paid, because they're essentially advertisements, we also tend to tune them out, or at least bracket them off in our minds.
  For instance, the words ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’ which were coined in Rio as the basis for North-South partnership were all bracketed, which means they have not been agreed upon.
  Targets for increasing foreign aid and protecting wildlife are opposed, and huge sections of text on the clashes between environmental protection and free trade remain bracketed.
  Hitherto neglected objects and unseen dangers suddenly swim into obscene visibility, human priorities are bracketed off, replaced by a world organised around the imperatives of canine or insect existence.
  No matter from which angle we analyze this theme, the other angles can never be completely bracketed out.
  Temporarily bracketing the rather ominous perspective that Shaviro brings to this sense of connection, we find that networks involve a different kind of habitation in the social field.
  He contended that bracketing enables one to objectively describe the phenomena under study.
  Those inclined to seek out a kind of mutuality among religious traditions have, in a sense, bracketed any highly dogmatic understanding of Christ.
  They bracket the most important questions, the political, legal, and cultural questions that ought to lead Americans to reject state killing.
  The interviewer, who was trained in coding procedures, both transcribed and coded the interviews, taking care to bracket her personal biases and beliefs.
  However, for the sake of this inquiry, it is necessary to bracket any Pauline understanding of justification.
  The scholars' doctrinal underpinnings can be bracketed and later assessed when critical methods of examining biblical texts are shared across denominational and inter-religious lines.
  Yet I found myself bracketing off various encounters, like the one with the taxi driver above, and refusing those experiences entry into the frame of my analysis.
  In our encounters with world music, aesthetic issues cannot be isolated and bracketed off.
  But the latter, too, is bracketed off, no less surely and to Stead's greater cost.
  Rather, it has been bracketed in the interests of examining or critiquing matters of authenticity and legitimacy in respect of what is claimed as part of a specifically indigenous past.
  All positing of the real, as opposed to the intentional, existence of the world must be bracketed.
  That said, at some point timeliness and public import must be bracketed for an evaluation of the book's contributions to theory, method, and substantive work in the sociology of religion.
  Content is bracketed off and/or made subordinate to form.
  The demands of ordinary fellow feeling and conventional morality can be bracketed in service of the great sacred cause.
2Place (one or more people or things) in the same category or group.
把…归入同一类；将…相提并论
he is sometimes bracketed with the “new wave” of film directors
他有时被归为“新潮派”导演。
Example sentencesExamples
- They argued that voluntary clubs, like charities, should not be bracketed alongside profit-making businesses when it comes to rates valuations.
- He was the subject of hagiographies in many languages, and was often bracketed along with Bismarck, Gladstone and Salisbury in the pantheon of world statesmen.
- Terse, spare, laconic, elliptic; at its sharpest it is comparable with Hemingway's, a writer with whom Hammett is often bracketed.
- If the company is unwilling to raise prices, it needs to be clearer about why it should be bracketed alongside other premium brands in consumers' eyes.
- This prize was jointly awarded to Maclaurin, Euler and Daniel Bernoulli, bracketing Maclaurin with the top two mathematicians of his day.
- I don't think he, a respectable Conservative chairman of a Parish Council, was too pleased at being bracketed with a Stalinist!
- Portugal cannot simply be bracketed alongside the two other sides that the Africans will play in Germany.
- The spread of negligence liability would not have to result in the broadening of the traditional category of mens rea, and would not mean that intention, recklessness, and negligence would henceforth be bracketed together.
- York has its own special identity and should not be bracketed with Leeds, the city's Labour MP Hugh Bayley has told the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly.
- Burger's presence on the drive and his allround work-rate will also be crucial to the Boks as they go out to prove they deserve to be bracketed with their great southern rivals in the top two of world rugby two years out from the next World Cup.
- How about being widely bracketed in doubles betting with all the other leading candidates in next Saturday's Cox Plate and the Melbourne Cup?
- Previous studies had suggested that people automatically bracket one another in terms of race, sex and age.
- He should be bracketed with dictators as Hitler and Stalin for crimes against humanity.
- So much has the Nazi period become the incarnation of evil that even suggesting that other absolutisms, including extreme racist nationalisms, can be bracketed with it seems to diminish the horror of the Third Reich.
- Pray, what has the BJP done in domestic or foreign policy to not be bracketed in the same league as its political opponents?
- Bizarre to record, after all that ‘plunder’ talk he seems to think that ‘promised foreign investment’ is a good thing, to be bracketed with peace and all.
- They can be bracketed with Canada, the only side Scotland have beaten in 14 friendlies under Vogts.
- But while he is respectful of his former Leicester teammates, he hated being bracketed as an ‘impact player’.
- ‘He's just come out of the juniors and already he is being bracketed in the same league as Muhammad Ali,’ he said.
- Quite soon the word will be hitting the Rough Guides, the late departures, the online travel sites and eventually we'll be bracketed up there with Scandinavia as a really expensive destination.
Synonyms
group, classify, class, categorize, grade, list, sort, set, place, assign
3Hold or attach (something) by means of a right-angled support.
给…装托架；用托架托住
pipes should be bracketed
必须用托架托住管子。
Example sentencesExamples
- You may need to remove this hose - it is bracketed to the side of the engine and bolted to the power steering pump.
- The bracketed shelf above the door was probably a later addition, as were the Doric columns flanking the sidelights.
- The only known blowers use a complex flexible rubber conduit assembly that needs to be bracketed and clamped at its outlet end to maintain its appropriate position.
4Military
Establish the range of (a target) by firing two preliminary shots, one short of the target and the other beyond it.
〔军〕采用夹叉射击测定目标距离
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- So we're probably going to have to shoot a number of them to bracket spatially the area where we need to target it so it will fall where we want it to fall.
1. 4.1Photography Establish (the correct exposure) by taking several pictures with slightly more or less exposure.
  〔摄〕曝光量测定（以略高或略低的曝光量拍摄数张照片以便确定正确的曝光量）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Fix your focus at a range that will fill the lens with shark, then remember to bracket your exposures in all the excitement!
  For insurance, bracket the exposure by using different shutter speeds.
  No matter which method you choose to use, it is always a good idea to bracket your exposure.
  I normally bracket each exposure at least one stop in both directions (underexposure and overexposure).
  Remember that infrared film is experimental, so bracket your exposures and be sure to have your film processed by a lab that has worked with infrared before.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French braguette or Spanish bragueta ‘codpiece, bracket, corbel’, from Provençal braga, from Latin braca, (plural) bracae ‘breeches’.

词汇	bracket
释义	Definition of bracket in English: bracket nounPlural brackets ˈbrakɪtˈbrækɪt 1Each of a pair of marks ( ) [ ] { } 〈 〉 used to enclose words or figures so as to separate them from the context. 括号（（）{}〈〉中的一个） symbols are given in brackets 符号在括号中给出。 Example sentencesExamples Total available marks are given in brackets, followed by the marks actually awarded. How refreshing it is to see that most of the adverts for farmland are given in acres often with the hectarage given in brackets. The figures in brackets are the maximum to which the ship can be upgraded. So is it possible to get real outcomes when we're talking about so many people, so many words, so many brackets around sentences and the like? The numbers according to the older 64-section scheme are given in brackets though not used. For a literal translation of the Ahadith, the words within brackets should be omitted. In this and subsequent figures, brackets identify major groups of seed plants. The words in brackets, ‘ignoring the possibility of an appeal out of time with permission’, point to such an application being different in kind. The figures in brackets are arrived at classifying the most common Italian openings into these three groups. Suddenly, nicely rounded figures like e19,000 were appearing in the price columns, with the figure in punts in brackets adjoining. Some of the dates listed are separated by brackets and are a good illustration of the various contradictory claims made by members of the Abashiri group. The words in brackets indicate the opinion presented by the computer in Versions 2 & 4. If we take the words in brackets which are not contested, that leaves really two points in the section. One of the fibers that compose the TDT is marked with a bracket. In the following summary a coupling ratio of 4 has been used with the figures in brackets corresponding to a coupling ratio of 4.7. If members look at the clause, they will see that it has the word ‘New’ written there, then, in brackets, the word ‘unanimous’. The figures in brackets identify the UK's ten biggest mortgage lenders. For each of the top poets, the number of votes obtained is given in brackets after his or her place number. The numbers in brackets are the marks that were written in the margins of the Gersaint catalog. The third column contains pitch pairs in brackets. Synonyms parenthesis, brace round bracket, square bracket, angle bracket, curly bracket 2with adjective or noun modifier A category of people or things that are similar or fall between specified limits. 同等级的人（或事） those in a high income bracket 同属高收入阶层。 Example sentencesExamples The Rockwell, also in Earls Court, is another newcomer falling into the bed-and-brasserie bracket. Replying to a question, Khalidi said Muslims in the US are a highly educated group and fall in the high-income bracket. The Bamfords have stopped contributing directly to the Tory party, although free helicopter and plane rides fall into the bracket of payments in kind. Agar said: ‘Chris falls into the same bracket as the three who've already come in.’ Top bracket taxpayers can earn 7% with National Savings. Only Craig Forsyth, who has been on the bench three times, falls into the same bracket. There's a lot of welterweight prospects coming through at the moment, like Matthew Macklin and David Barnes, people who Matthew deserves to be classed in that same bracket with. As at the last election, one percent of voters had active party membership, with the biggest age bracket listed as those over 60. There will always be leaders and followers and it has to be said that Explosions in the Sky fall into the second bracket. And the 17-24 age bracket accounts for about one in four accidents on Britain's roads, despite representing only one in six drivers. This is not just another way of looking at self-identification by class, or economic bracket, or being in the in crowd. With the obtaining high poverty levels and the consequent growing number of people falling into the vulnerable bracket, it would be grave to lose the support of co-operating partners. I don't think a person's economic bracket ought to be a dating criterion, especially since it isn't causing a problem between the two of us. The result was simple: the chances of a child from a poor family making it into the highest income bracket fell by 40 per cent. South Africa and Pakistan rate amongst the top bracket teams in both forms of the game. The defendant in my view lacked frankness in the witness box and I can understand Mr Banner's submission on behalf of the Secretary of State that this is an upper bracket case and I tend to lean to that view. The new Athlon XP-M 2100 + falls into the low-power bracket for thin-and-light notebooks that require a cooler processor. Michael Chabon, author of Wonder Boys, is careful to place his Summerland within the new and lucrative publishing bracket of ‘all ages’. For tax planning purposes, a general partnership can be a useful method of diverting income from high bracket parents to their children. About 800,000 Irish women fall into that age bracket. Synonyms group, grouping, category, categorization, grade, grading, classification, class, set, section, division, order, batch, cohort, list 3A right-angled support attached to a wall for holding a shelf, lamp, or other object. （固定在墙上并从墙上成直角伸出，用于安放搁板、灯或其他物体的）托架，托座 Example sentencesExamples The C&O used portable dual Mars lights on the forward end of its RDC's, hanging them on a bracket attached to the door and powered via an extension cord. 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. There was a firepit for warmth in Winter, and brackets on the white-painted walls which held oil lamps. It is ornately Victorian in design and comes with a pair of brackets so that it can be attached to a wall. The combination of features were that you have a wall bracket which is U-shaped, it screws directly onto a wall, and then there is a support bracket, also U-shaped, which folds down. The seven companions were left in silence - the only light stuttering from oily torches in brackets along the walls, as there were no windows. Even failure to fix a loose slate, or remove a wall bracket for hanging flowers could land a homeowner behind bars, according to official warnings sent to householders in Co Meath. Check the deal you are offered, as wall mounting brackets can add several hundred euro to an attractive price. At the top of the stairwell were two great wooden doors, possibly with some sort of carving on them, though it was hard to see in the dim half-light cast by the torches, which hung in brackets along the walls. On the center lamp the decorative arm brackets are modeled on both sides. We are reviewing all the brackets which support the lights to assess whether they are acceptable. An adhesive strip on the back wall attaches the bracket to the support surface. This corridor was lit only be well-spaced torches burning in brackets on the walls, rather than the ornate oil lamps that hung from the ceilings of the more public parts of the palace. He himself had tiny concerns about the accuracy of his numbers and the possibility that the weight and limited angular freedom of the supporting brackets would somehow cause a problem. The store would be one of only a handful across the country selling shelves, brackets and other DIY items throughout the night. Use wall mounted baskets attached to shelf brackets for an attractive shelf that can hold bathroom supplies or home office paperwork. A bracket on the wall beside a window, still with its adjustment screw, remains of where Gregory's telescope was set up. She had even taken the precaution of chaining the baskets to brackets on the outside wall of her house, but the thieves still managed to take them. Aside from these there were some miscellaneous mounting brackets / supports, thermal compound, and some screws. Two unlit torches were attached to brackets in the wall either side of the sacred flame. Synonyms support, prop, stay, batten, joist, buttress rest, mounting, holder, shelf, rack, frame 4Military The distance between two artillery shots fired either side of the target to establish range. 〔军〕夹叉射击（指为测距向目标试射的远弹和近弹）；夹中目标（指夹叉射击时远近两弹落点间的距离） Example sentencesExamples The front edges of all example target units are within the same range bracket, and unit A is the main target. In the hope of obtaining a rapid and overwhelming fire, the French artillery ranges only for a long bracket. 5US A diagram representing the sequence of matches in a sports tournament, especially as used for making predictions about its outcome. with the March Madness tournament half the fun is filling out your bracket Example sentencesExamples If you have a team left on the St. Louis bracket other than Georgia Tech we are extremely impressed … Fill out your brackets yet? In the AFC, the Jets and Broncos can round out the bracket by beating St. Louis and Indy, respectively. We will begin our two-part preview with bracket one, which kicked things off yesterday with Florida and Nebraska picking up victories. In the loser's bracket, I think it's a coin flip. The right side of the College World Series brackets has been finalized. Here's a look at all the clubs in bracket two … I think we can agree the ease of the FSU bracket will get them a spot in the Super Regional. It's not surprising that both of us pick Tulane to win Bracket 2 as they have been atop many rankings for a long time. We'd be more psyched about the Manhattan win if well over half of our pool hadn't picked that bracket. We don't know about you, but after a ridiculous weekend of hoop, our brackets are a mess. Was the Sweet 16 bittersweet or oh-so-good for your brackets? 6the bracketBritish dated, informal A person's nose or jaw. 〈非正式，旧〉鼻子；下巴 a quick punch up the bracket Example sentencesExamples I didnt know, my dad used to say it to me, You need a good punch up the bracket! It can be a relatively mild insult among friends, you should avoid saying it to strangers unless you want a smack in the mush or a punch up the bracket. verbbrackets, bracketed, bracketingˈbrakɪtˈbrækɪt [with object] 1Enclose (words or figures) in brackets. 把（词或数字）置于括号内 I have bracketed the phrase ‘of contrary qualities’ in the translation, since it is not explicit in the Greek Example sentencesExamples He dutifully read his speech from start to finish and when he came to the conclusion, his speechwriter had bracketed an instruction for him to now ‘pull the cord’. Having bracketed the term, the author reverts to the word ‘lesbian’ in describing these Sapphic moderns throughout the text. Sometimes she would bracket a passage at the beginning and the end. Perl code can be placed inside a component, bracketed by . My mother would immediately take out a pencil and bracket familiar names. With the illustrations the situation is worse, for they are not numbered or listed anywhere, and there is no indication of any kind, marginal or bracketed, of the figure corresponding to a description in the text. In what follows the LM's lections will be bracketed, but the RCL ones not, although it brackets the numerals of its Proper Sundays. Indeed Florio, in his dictionary of 1598, bracketed the two terms when he wrote: ‘a kinde of clouted cream called a foole or a trifle.’ Arrowhead indicates muscle DT1, arrow indicates LT4, and LT1-3 are bracketed. Indeed, I have bracketed the word ‘study’ with quote marks throughout this column because the word ‘survey’ seems more appropriate. I quote this short poem in full (the bracketed letters, which refer the reader to Scriptural verses listed in the margins, are reproduced from the original text). It should be noted that the partial manuscript was laser printed, and it included several handwritten remarks, which I have bracketed. 1.1Mathematics Enclose (a complex expression) in brackets to denote that the whole of the expression rather than just a part of it has a particular relation, such as multiplication or division, to another expression. 〔数〕用括号括 Example sentencesExamples At each stage, we bracket together the symbols with the lowest probabilities, and re-order the list. The optimal value we are searching for is bracketed between a and b, and M is the point with the highest function value found so far. 1.2 Put (a belief or matter) aside temporarily. 暂不考虑；放在一边 he bracketed off the question of God himself 他把上帝是否存在这个问题暂时撂到了一边。 Example sentencesExamples That said, at some point timeliness and public import must be bracketed for an evaluation of the book's contributions to theory, method, and substantive work in the sociology of religion. Temporarily bracketing the rather ominous perspective that Shaviro brings to this sense of connection, we find that networks involve a different kind of habitation in the social field. But because they're paid, because they're essentially advertisements, we also tend to tune them out, or at least bracket them off in our minds. The interviewer, who was trained in coding procedures, both transcribed and coded the interviews, taking care to bracket her personal biases and beliefs. For instance, the words ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’ which were coined in Rio as the basis for North-South partnership were all bracketed, which means they have not been agreed upon. He contended that bracketing enables one to objectively describe the phenomena under study. Content is bracketed off and/or made subordinate to form. No matter from which angle we analyze this theme, the other angles can never be completely bracketed out. The scholars' doctrinal underpinnings can be bracketed and later assessed when critical methods of examining biblical texts are shared across denominational and inter-religious lines. In our encounters with world music, aesthetic issues cannot be isolated and bracketed off. Rather, it has been bracketed in the interests of examining or critiquing matters of authenticity and legitimacy in respect of what is claimed as part of a specifically indigenous past. Targets for increasing foreign aid and protecting wildlife are opposed, and huge sections of text on the clashes between environmental protection and free trade remain bracketed. The demands of ordinary fellow feeling and conventional morality can be bracketed in service of the great sacred cause. They bracket the most important questions, the political, legal, and cultural questions that ought to lead Americans to reject state killing. Yet I found myself bracketing off various encounters, like the one with the taxi driver above, and refusing those experiences entry into the frame of my analysis. However, for the sake of this inquiry, it is necessary to bracket any Pauline understanding of justification. But the latter, too, is bracketed off, no less surely and to Stead's greater cost. All positing of the real, as opposed to the intentional, existence of the world must be bracketed. Those inclined to seek out a kind of mutuality among religious traditions have, in a sense, bracketed any highly dogmatic understanding of Christ. Hitherto neglected objects and unseen dangers suddenly swim into obscene visibility, human priorities are bracketed off, replaced by a world organised around the imperatives of canine or insect existence. 2Place (one or more people or things) in the same category or group. 把…归入同一类；将…相提并论 he is sometimes bracketed with the ‘new wave’ of film directors 他有时被归为“新潮派”导演。 Example sentencesExamples Burger's presence on the drive and his allround work-rate will also be crucial to the Boks as they go out to prove they deserve to be bracketed with their great southern rivals in the top two of world rugby two years out from the next World Cup. Pray, what has the BJP done in domestic or foreign policy to not be bracketed in the same league as its political opponents? York has its own special identity and should not be bracketed with Leeds, the city's Labour MP Hugh Bayley has told the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly. But while he is respectful of his former Leicester teammates, he hated being bracketed as an ‘impact player’. This prize was jointly awarded to Maclaurin, Euler and Daniel Bernoulli, bracketing Maclaurin with the top two mathematicians of his day. I don't think he, a respectable Conservative chairman of a Parish Council, was too pleased at being bracketed with a Stalinist! Terse, spare, laconic, elliptic; at its sharpest it is comparable with Hemingway's, a writer with whom Hammett is often bracketed. So much has the Nazi period become the incarnation of evil that even suggesting that other absolutisms, including extreme racist nationalisms, can be bracketed with it seems to diminish the horror of the Third Reich. They argued that voluntary clubs, like charities, should not be bracketed alongside profit-making businesses when it comes to rates valuations. Previous studies had suggested that people automatically bracket one another in terms of race, sex and age. If the company is unwilling to raise prices, it needs to be clearer about why it should be bracketed alongside other premium brands in consumers' eyes. He should be bracketed with dictators as Hitler and Stalin for crimes against humanity. They can be bracketed with Canada, the only side Scotland have beaten in 14 friendlies under Vogts. Portugal cannot simply be bracketed alongside the two other sides that the Africans will play in Germany. He was the subject of hagiographies in many languages, and was often bracketed along with Bismarck, Gladstone and Salisbury in the pantheon of world statesmen. ‘He's just come out of the juniors and already he is being bracketed in the same league as Muhammad Ali,’ he said. Quite soon the word will be hitting the Rough Guides, the late departures, the online travel sites and eventually we'll be bracketed up there with Scandinavia as a really expensive destination. The spread of negligence liability would not have to result in the broadening of the traditional category of mens rea, and would not mean that intention, recklessness, and negligence would henceforth be bracketed together. Bizarre to record, after all that ‘plunder’ talk he seems to think that ‘promised foreign investment’ is a good thing, to be bracketed with peace and all. How about being widely bracketed in doubles betting with all the other leading candidates in next Saturday's Cox Plate and the Melbourne Cup? Synonyms group, classify, class, categorize, grade, list, sort, set, place, assign couple, pair, twin, yoke, put together, set side by side, regard as the same, regard as identical, liken, compare 3Hold or attach (something) by means of a right-angled support. 给…装托架；用托架托住 pipes should be bracketed 必须用托架托住管子。 Example sentencesExamples The bracketed shelf above the door was probably a later addition, as were the Doric columns flanking the sidelights. The only known blowers use a complex flexible rubber conduit assembly that needs to be bracketed and clamped at its outlet end to maintain its appropriate position. You may need to remove this hose - it is bracketed to the side of the engine and bolted to the power steering pump. 4Military Establish the range of (a target) by firing two preliminary shots, one short of the target and the other beyond it. 〔军〕采用夹叉射击测定目标距离 Example sentencesExamples 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. So we're probably going to have to shoot a number of them to bracket spatially the area where we need to target it so it will fall where we want it to fall. 4.1Photography Establish (the correct exposure) by taking several pictures with slightly more or less exposure. 〔摄〕曝光量测定（以略高或略低的曝光量拍摄数张照片以便确定正确的曝光量） it's always best to bracket your exposures Example sentencesExamples Fix your focus at a range that will fill the lens with shark, then remember to bracket your exposures in all the excitement! No matter which method you choose to use, it is always a good idea to bracket your exposure. For insurance, bracket the exposure by using different shutter speeds. Remember that infrared film is experimental, so bracket your exposures and be sure to have your film processed by a lab that has worked with infrared before. I normally bracket each exposure at least one stop in both directions (underexposure and overexposure). Origin Late 16th century: from French braguette or Spanish bragueta 'codpiece, bracket, corbel', from Provençal braga, from Latin braca, (plural) bracae 'breeches'. This support is apparently via French braguette from Spanish bragueta ‘codpiece, bracket, corbel’. The base is Latin brāca, singular of brācae ‘breeches’; it seems that the architectural bracket may have derived its name from a resemblance to the codpiece of a pair of breeches. An erroneous connection with Latin bracchium ‘arm’ (see bracelet), because of the notion of ‘support’, seems to have affected the sense development. Rhymes Blackett, jacket, packet, placket, racket Definition of bracket in US English: bracket nounˈbrækɪtˈbrakit 1Each of a pair of marks [ ] used to enclose words or figures so as to separate them from the context. 括号（（）{}〈〉中的一个） symbols are given in brackets 符号在括号中给出。 Example sentencesExamples For each of the top poets, the number of votes obtained is given in brackets after his or her place number. One of the fibers that compose the TDT is marked with a bracket. The figures in brackets are the maximum to which the ship can be upgraded. How refreshing it is to see that most of the adverts for farmland are given in acres often with the hectarage given in brackets. If we take the words in brackets which are not contested, that leaves really two points in the section. The figures in brackets are arrived at classifying the most common Italian openings into these three groups. The numbers in brackets are the marks that were written in the margins of the Gersaint catalog. Some of the dates listed are separated by brackets and are a good illustration of the various contradictory claims made by members of the Abashiri group. The third column contains pitch pairs in brackets. The words in brackets indicate the opinion presented by the computer in Versions 2 & 4. If members look at the clause, they will see that it has the word ‘New’ written there, then, in brackets, the word ‘unanimous’. The figures in brackets identify the UK's ten biggest mortgage lenders. For a literal translation of the Ahadith, the words within brackets should be omitted. Total available marks are given in brackets, followed by the marks actually awarded. In this and subsequent figures, brackets identify major groups of seed plants. So is it possible to get real outcomes when we're talking about so many people, so many words, so many brackets around sentences and the like? The numbers according to the older 64-section scheme are given in brackets though not used. The words in brackets, ‘ignoring the possibility of an appeal out of time with permission’, point to such an application being different in kind. In the following summary a coupling ratio of 4 has been used with the figures in brackets corresponding to a coupling ratio of 4.7. Suddenly, nicely rounded figures like e19,000 were appearing in the price columns, with the figure in punts in brackets adjoining. Synonyms parenthesis, brace 2with adjective or noun modifier A category of people or things that are similar or fall between specified limits. 同等级的人（或事） those in a high income bracket 同属高收入阶层。 Example sentencesExamples There's a lot of welterweight prospects coming through at the moment, like Matthew Macklin and David Barnes, people who Matthew deserves to be classed in that same bracket with. And the 17-24 age bracket accounts for about one in four accidents on Britain's roads, despite representing only one in six drivers. I don't think a person's economic bracket ought to be a dating criterion, especially since it isn't causing a problem between the two of us. The result was simple: the chances of a child from a poor family making it into the highest income bracket fell by 40 per cent. Michael Chabon, author of Wonder Boys, is careful to place his Summerland within the new and lucrative publishing bracket of ‘all ages’. With the obtaining high poverty levels and the consequent growing number of people falling into the vulnerable bracket, it would be grave to lose the support of co-operating partners. The defendant in my view lacked frankness in the witness box and I can understand Mr Banner's submission on behalf of the Secretary of State that this is an upper bracket case and I tend to lean to that view. This is not just another way of looking at self-identification by class, or economic bracket, or being in the in crowd. South Africa and Pakistan rate amongst the top bracket teams in both forms of the game. For tax planning purposes, a general partnership can be a useful method of diverting income from high bracket parents to their children. About 800,000 Irish women fall into that age bracket. Top bracket taxpayers can earn 7% with National Savings. There will always be leaders and followers and it has to be said that Explosions in the Sky fall into the second bracket. As at the last election, one percent of voters had active party membership, with the biggest age bracket listed as those over 60. The Bamfords have stopped contributing directly to the Tory party, although free helicopter and plane rides fall into the bracket of payments in kind. The Rockwell, also in Earls Court, is another newcomer falling into the bed-and-brasserie bracket. Only Craig Forsyth, who has been on the bench three times, falls into the same bracket. Replying to a question, Khalidi said Muslims in the US are a highly educated group and fall in the high-income bracket. The new Athlon XP-M 2100 + falls into the low-power bracket for thin-and-light notebooks that require a cooler processor. Agar said: ‘Chris falls into the same bracket as the three who've already come in.’ Synonyms group, grouping, category, categorization, grade, grading, classification, class, set, section, division, order, batch, cohort, list 3A right-angled support attached to and projecting from a wall for holding a shelf, lamp, or other object. （固定在墙上并从墙上成直角伸出，用于安放搁板、灯或其他物体的）托架，托座 Example sentencesExamples Aside from these there were some miscellaneous mounting brackets / supports, thermal compound, and some screws. 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. At the top of the stairwell were two great wooden doors, possibly with some sort of carving on them, though it was hard to see in the dim half-light cast by the torches, which hung in brackets along the walls. An adhesive strip on the back wall attaches the bracket to the support surface. The C&O used portable dual Mars lights on the forward end of its RDC's, hanging them on a bracket attached to the door and powered via an extension cord. Check the deal you are offered, as wall mounting brackets can add several hundred euro to an attractive price. On the center lamp the decorative arm brackets are modeled on both sides. He himself had tiny concerns about the accuracy of his numbers and the possibility that the weight and limited angular freedom of the supporting brackets would somehow cause a problem. We are reviewing all the brackets which support the lights to assess whether they are acceptable. Even failure to fix a loose slate, or remove a wall bracket for hanging flowers could land a homeowner behind bars, according to official warnings sent to householders in Co Meath. A bracket on the wall beside a window, still with its adjustment screw, remains of where Gregory's telescope was set up. The store would be one of only a handful across the country selling shelves, brackets and other DIY items throughout the night. This corridor was lit only be well-spaced torches burning in brackets on the walls, rather than the ornate oil lamps that hung from the ceilings of the more public parts of the palace. Two unlit torches were attached to brackets in the wall either side of the sacred flame. It is ornately Victorian in design and comes with a pair of brackets so that it can be attached to a wall. The seven companions were left in silence - the only light stuttering from oily torches in brackets along the walls, as there were no windows. Use wall mounted baskets attached to shelf brackets for an attractive shelf that can hold bathroom supplies or home office paperwork. The combination of features were that you have a wall bracket which is U-shaped, it screws directly onto a wall, and then there is a support bracket, also U-shaped, which folds down. There was a firepit for warmth in Winter, and brackets on the white-painted walls which held oil lamps. She had even taken the precaution of chaining the baskets to brackets on the outside wall of her house, but the thieves still managed to take them. Synonyms support, prop, stay, batten, joist, buttress 4Military The distance between two artillery shots fired either side of the target to establish range. 〔军〕夹叉射击（指为测距向目标试射的远弹和近弹）；夹中目标（指夹叉射击时远近两弹落点间的距离） Example sentencesExamples In the hope of obtaining a rapid and overwhelming fire, the French artillery ranges only for a long bracket. The front edges of all example target units are within the same range bracket, and unit A is the main target. 5US A diagram representing the sequence of games in a sports tournament, especially as used for making predictions about its outcome. with the March Madness tournament half the fun is filling out your bracket Example sentencesExamples We will begin our two-part preview with bracket one, which kicked things off yesterday with Florida and Nebraska picking up victories. Fill out your brackets yet? Was the Sweet 16 bittersweet or oh-so-good for your brackets? We don't know about you, but after a ridiculous weekend of hoop, our brackets are a mess. Here's a look at all the clubs in bracket two … In the AFC, the Jets and Broncos can round out the bracket by beating St. Louis and Indy, respectively. If you have a team left on the St. Louis bracket other than Georgia Tech we are extremely impressed … I think we can agree the ease of the FSU bracket will get them a spot in the Super Regional. It's not surprising that both of us pick Tulane to win Bracket 2 as they have been atop many rankings for a long time. We'd be more psyched about the Manhattan win if well over half of our pool hadn't picked that bracket. In the loser's bracket, I think it's a coin flip. The right side of the College World Series brackets has been finalized. verbˈbrækɪtˈbrakit [with object] 1Enclose (words or figures) in brackets. 把（词或数字）置于括号内 I have bracketed the phrase “of contrary qualities” in the translation, since it is not explicit in the Greek Example sentencesExamples He dutifully read his speech from start to finish and when he came to the conclusion, his speechwriter had bracketed an instruction for him to now ‘pull the cord’. Having bracketed the term, the author reverts to the word ‘lesbian’ in describing these Sapphic moderns throughout the text. Indeed Florio, in his dictionary of 1598, bracketed the two terms when he wrote: ‘a kinde of clouted cream called a foole or a trifle.’ Perl code can be placed inside a component, bracketed by . In what follows the LM's lections will be bracketed, but the RCL ones not, although it brackets the numerals of its Proper Sundays. It should be noted that the partial manuscript was laser printed, and it included several handwritten remarks, which I have bracketed. Indeed, I have bracketed the word ‘study’ with quote marks throughout this column because the word ‘survey’ seems more appropriate. I quote this short poem in full (the bracketed letters, which refer the reader to Scriptural verses listed in the margins, are reproduced from the original text). Sometimes she would bracket a passage at the beginning and the end. With the illustrations the situation is worse, for they are not numbered or listed anywhere, and there is no indication of any kind, marginal or bracketed, of the figure corresponding to a description in the text. My mother would immediately take out a pencil and bracket familiar names. Arrowhead indicates muscle DT1, arrow indicates LT4, and LT1-3 are bracketed. 1.1Mathematics Enclose (a complex expression) in brackets to denote that the whole of the expression rather than just a part of it has a particular relation, such as multiplication or division, to another expression. 〔数〕用括号括 Example sentencesExamples The optimal value we are searching for is bracketed between a and b, and M is the point with the highest function value found so far. At each stage, we bracket together the symbols with the lowest probabilities, and re-order the list. 1.2 Put (a belief or matter) aside temporarily. 暂不考虑；放在一边 he bracketed off the question of God 他把上帝是否存在这个问题暂时撂到了一边。 Example sentencesExamples But because they're paid, because they're essentially advertisements, we also tend to tune them out, or at least bracket them off in our minds. For instance, the words ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’ which were coined in Rio as the basis for North-South partnership were all bracketed, which means they have not been agreed upon. Targets for increasing foreign aid and protecting wildlife are opposed, and huge sections of text on the clashes between environmental protection and free trade remain bracketed. Hitherto neglected objects and unseen dangers suddenly swim into obscene visibility, human priorities are bracketed off, replaced by a world organised around the imperatives of canine or insect existence. No matter from which angle we analyze this theme, the other angles can never be completely bracketed out. Temporarily bracketing the rather ominous perspective that Shaviro brings to this sense of connection, we find that networks involve a different kind of habitation in the social field. He contended that bracketing enables one to objectively describe the phenomena under study. Those inclined to seek out a kind of mutuality among religious traditions have, in a sense, bracketed any highly dogmatic understanding of Christ. They bracket the most important questions, the political, legal, and cultural questions that ought to lead Americans to reject state killing. The interviewer, who was trained in coding procedures, both transcribed and coded the interviews, taking care to bracket her personal biases and beliefs. However, for the sake of this inquiry, it is necessary to bracket any Pauline understanding of justification. The scholars' doctrinal underpinnings can be bracketed and later assessed when critical methods of examining biblical texts are shared across denominational and inter-religious lines. Yet I found myself bracketing off various encounters, like the one with the taxi driver above, and refusing those experiences entry into the frame of my analysis. In our encounters with world music, aesthetic issues cannot be isolated and bracketed off. But the latter, too, is bracketed off, no less surely and to Stead's greater cost. Rather, it has been bracketed in the interests of examining or critiquing matters of authenticity and legitimacy in respect of what is claimed as part of a specifically indigenous past. All positing of the real, as opposed to the intentional, existence of the world must be bracketed. That said, at some point timeliness and public import must be bracketed for an evaluation of the book's contributions to theory, method, and substantive work in the sociology of religion. Content is bracketed off and/or made subordinate to form. The demands of ordinary fellow feeling and conventional morality can be bracketed in service of the great sacred cause. 2Place (one or more people or things) in the same category or group. 把…归入同一类；将…相提并论 he is sometimes bracketed with the “new wave” of film directors 他有时被归为“新潮派”导演。 Example sentencesExamples They argued that voluntary clubs, like charities, should not be bracketed alongside profit-making businesses when it comes to rates valuations. He was the subject of hagiographies in many languages, and was often bracketed along with Bismarck, Gladstone and Salisbury in the pantheon of world statesmen. Terse, spare, laconic, elliptic; at its sharpest it is comparable with Hemingway's, a writer with whom Hammett is often bracketed. If the company is unwilling to raise prices, it needs to be clearer about why it should be bracketed alongside other premium brands in consumers' eyes. This prize was jointly awarded to Maclaurin, Euler and Daniel Bernoulli, bracketing Maclaurin with the top two mathematicians of his day. I don't think he, a respectable Conservative chairman of a Parish Council, was too pleased at being bracketed with a Stalinist! Portugal cannot simply be bracketed alongside the two other sides that the Africans will play in Germany. The spread of negligence liability would not have to result in the broadening of the traditional category of mens rea, and would not mean that intention, recklessness, and negligence would henceforth be bracketed together. York has its own special identity and should not be bracketed with Leeds, the city's Labour MP Hugh Bayley has told the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly. Burger's presence on the drive and his allround work-rate will also be crucial to the Boks as they go out to prove they deserve to be bracketed with their great southern rivals in the top two of world rugby two years out from the next World Cup. How about being widely bracketed in doubles betting with all the other leading candidates in next Saturday's Cox Plate and the Melbourne Cup? Previous studies had suggested that people automatically bracket one another in terms of race, sex and age. He should be bracketed with dictators as Hitler and Stalin for crimes against humanity. So much has the Nazi period become the incarnation of evil that even suggesting that other absolutisms, including extreme racist nationalisms, can be bracketed with it seems to diminish the horror of the Third Reich. Pray, what has the BJP done in domestic or foreign policy to not be bracketed in the same league as its political opponents? Bizarre to record, after all that ‘plunder’ talk he seems to think that ‘promised foreign investment’ is a good thing, to be bracketed with peace and all. They can be bracketed with Canada, the only side Scotland have beaten in 14 friendlies under Vogts. But while he is respectful of his former Leicester teammates, he hated being bracketed as an ‘impact player’. ‘He's just come out of the juniors and already he is being bracketed in the same league as Muhammad Ali,’ he said. Quite soon the word will be hitting the Rough Guides, the late departures, the online travel sites and eventually we'll be bracketed up there with Scandinavia as a really expensive destination. Synonyms group, classify, class, categorize, grade, list, sort, set, place, assign 3Hold or attach (something) by means of a right-angled support. 给…装托架；用托架托住 pipes should be bracketed 必须用托架托住管子。 Example sentencesExamples You may need to remove this hose - it is bracketed to the side of the engine and bolted to the power steering pump. The bracketed shelf above the door was probably a later addition, as were the Doric columns flanking the sidelights. The only known blowers use a complex flexible rubber conduit assembly that needs to be bracketed and clamped at its outlet end to maintain its appropriate position. 4Military Establish the range of (a target) by firing two preliminary shots, one short of the target and the other beyond it. 〔军〕采用夹叉射击测定目标距离 Example sentencesExamples 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. So we're probably going to have to shoot a number of them to bracket spatially the area where we need to target it so it will fall where we want it to fall. 4.1Photography Establish (the correct exposure) by taking several pictures with slightly more or less exposure. 〔摄〕曝光量测定（以略高或略低的曝光量拍摄数张照片以便确定正确的曝光量） Example sentencesExamples Fix your focus at a range that will fill the lens with shark, then remember to bracket your exposures in all the excitement! For insurance, bracket the exposure by using different shutter speeds. No matter which method you choose to use, it is always a good idea to bracket your exposure. I normally bracket each exposure at least one stop in both directions (underexposure and overexposure). Remember that infrared film is experimental, so bracket your exposures and be sure to have your film processed by a lab that has worked with infrared before. Origin Late 16th century: from French braguette or Spanish bragueta ‘codpiece, bracket, corbel’, from Provençal braga, from Latin braca, (plural) bracae ‘breeches’.
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