bracket
b ra kit
- n a category falling within certain defined limits
- n either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material
- n either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material
- n a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf)
- v support with brackets
bracket bookshelves - v place into brackets
Please bracket this remark - v classify or group
- Our tax bracket is only applied on income earned in the range of that bracket, not on your entire lump sum of income.
- Any scientific measure of the middle class, however, entails drawing arbitrary brackets, both economic and psychological, around the group.
- The Foreign Ministers' Deputies, laboring in London over German and Austrian peace treaty drafts, last week had more brackets than boiler plate on their hands.