| bracket | |
| 1. subst. A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf. | |
| 2. subst. (engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part. | |
| 3. subst. (nautical) A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support. | |
| 4. subst. (military) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions. | |
| 5. subst. Any of the characters "(", ")", "", "", "", "", and (computer science) "", used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc. | |
| 6. subst. (UK) "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation. | |
| 7. subst. (US) "" and "" specifically - opposed to the other forms of which have their own technical names. | |
| 8. subst. (sports) A printed diagram of games in a tournament. | |
| 9. subst. (sports) A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes. | |
| 10. subst. One of several ranges of numbers. | |
| tax bracket, age bracket | |
| 11. subst. (algebra) A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range. | |
| 12. subst. (military) In artillery, the endangered region between two shell impacts (one long and one short). The next shell fired is likely to hit accurately. | |
| 13. subst. (typography) The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter. | |
| 14. subst. (land surveying, 19th century) a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench. | |
| 15. v. To support by means of mechanical brackets. | |
| 16. v. To enclose in typographical brackets. | |
| 17. v. To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets. | |
| I tried to hit the bullseye by first bracketing it with two shots and then splitting the difference with my third, but I missed. | |
| 18. v. To place in the same category. | |
| Because the didn't have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year olds with the eight-year olds. | |
| 19. v. To mark distinctly for special treatment. | |
| 20. v. To set aside, discount, ignore. | |
| 21. v. (photography) 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. | |
| 22. v. (philosophy, phenomenology) 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 phil | |
| 23. subst. (alt form, bragget) (drink made with ale and honey) | |
