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Definition of Bracket

Bracket An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office. A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles. A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support. The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage. One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet. A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets. A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called fork. To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an object). Related Definitions: After, Also, An, And, Angles, Another, Architectural, Are, As, Ascertaining, Basis, Be, Beyond, Bodies, Bracket, By, Called, Carriage, Certain, Cheek, Column, Combination, Connect, Crooked, Crotchet, Decorative, Determined, Discharge, Elevation, Establish, Established, Exact, Excluded, Explanation, Face, Falling, Fastened, Feature, Figure, Fired, Firing, Fixture, For, Fork, From, Furnish, Gas, General, Heavy, Holder, In, Inclose, Indicate, Intermediate, Interpolation, Is, It, Knee, Lamp, Like, Member, Mistake, Navy, Note, Object, Obtained, Of, Office, Omission, One, Only, Or, Ordnance, Ornamental, Other, Outside, Part, Phrase, Piece, Pier, Place, Plain, Projectile, Projecting, Proper, Range, Rectify, Reference, Resembling, Same, Seeming, Sentence, Shape, Shoot, Short, Shot, Shots, Side, So, Strengthen, Such, Supply, Support, Surface, Target, The, Timber, To, Triangular, Two, United, Until, Used, Wall, Weight, With, Within

Bracket Quotations Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. Thomas Sowell I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all. Richard Attenborough And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. Clifford D. Simak Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. Roger Wicker Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. Judith Viorst

Bracket Translations bracket in Afrikaans is hakie bracket in Dutch is kramp, haakje, klamp, nietje bracket in German is Gruppe, Konsole, Halter, eckige Klammer, Klammer bracket in Portuguese is suporte bracket in Spanish is anaquel, la a bracket in Swedish is klammar, konsol

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