Meaning

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

    Winkel, Träger, Konsole

    кронште́йнkronštɛ́jn, подпо́ркаpodpórka

    кронште́йнkronštéjn

    a support projecting from a wall (as to hold 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.

    Halter, Konsole, Klammer

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

    Ständer

  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.

    (UK)“(” and “)” specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.

  6. (US)“[” and “]” specifically, as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.

    Klammer

    ско́бкаskóbka

    ду́жкаdúžka

  7. A diagram of games in a tournament.

    Turnierbaum

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

  9. One of several ranges of numbers.

    tax bracket, age bracket

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

    Gruppe, Stufe, Klasse

  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.

Examples

16 sentences
  1. Open the brackets in the equation.

    Розкрийте дужки у рівнянні.

    ruРаскройте скобки в уравнении.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · Thanuir · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  2. Translate the words between the brackets.

    ruПереведите слова в скобках.

    deÜbersetzen Sie die Wörter zwischen den Klammern.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · sundown · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  3. Please write a word between the brackets.

    deBitte schreiben Sie ein Wort zwischen die Klammern.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · sundown · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  4. I told them to use parentheses, not brackets.

    ruЯ сказал им использовать круглые скобки, а не квадратные.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · CM · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  5. Her income puts her into the highest tax bracket.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · AlanF_US · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
item attached to a wall to hold up a shelf:
generically any of “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, etc.:
Русский
By meaning 2
item attached to a wall to hold up a shelf:
generically any of “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, etc.:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
item attached to a wall to hold up a shelf:
engineering: intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part:
sport: diagram of games in a tournament:
one of several ranges of numbers:

Origin

From earlier bragget, *bracket, from Middle English *braget, *braket (attested in braket n

From earlier bragget, *bracket, from Middle English *braget, *braket (attested in braket nail), from Old French braguette (“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches, one's fly”), a diminutive of Old French brague (“knickers, britches”), from Old Occitan braga, from Latin brāca (“pants”), from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, from Proto-Germanic *brāks, an early form of Proto-Germanic *brōks (“leggings, breeches, trousers”).

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Forms

plural: brackets
Singularbracket
Pluralbrackets

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
land surveying:benchmark
"(" and ")":parenthesesparens
Close in meaning
  • a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf):wall bracket
  • either of two punctuation marks (‘[’ or ‘]’) used to enclose textual material:square bracket
  • either of two punctuation marks (‘<’ or ‘>’) used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material:angle bracket

Word family

56 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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