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单词 open bracket
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open bracket
g. transitive. To write or type the punctuation mark that typically forms the first of a pair of (brackets, parentheses, quotation marks, etc.). Frequently in imperative. Hence forming noun compounds denoting such a punctuation mark, as open bracket, open parenthesis, open quote. Cf. close v. Additions.
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1928 A. H. Highton Pract. Proofreading vi. 46 Accuracy of agreement with copy is insured when every punctuation-mark and capital is included with the recital of words. The following is an example... I spelled it out com and then he said com open quote cap why com single quote [etc.].
1936 Punch 16 Dec. 685/1 ‘What did I say last, Miss Pin?’ ‘You said “It was a beautiful old face full stop open quotes.”’ ‘Ah. Don't open quotes, Miss Pin. On no account open quotes.’
1948 R. M. Gay & M. E. Skillin Words into Type 276 A comma may precede an open parenthesis only if the word or words in parenthesis clearly limit a following word.
1965 MLN 80 (Spanish Issue) 283 Vs. 9562, read quanc'ai;..vs. 9677, add oi to the variants of T (cf. n.); vs. 10253, open quotes.
1965 Math. of Computation 19 358 The usual run of typographical errors—..three open brackets,..where by implication there should be seven,..and so on.
1982 J. A. Burrow Medieval Writers & their Work ii. 48 The conventions of the printed page require editors to open inverted commas somewhere in the last three lines.
1983 InfoWorld (Nexis) 11 July 76 The other single quote, which would be used as an open quote (‘) on the systems where it prints differently than the apostrophe.
1987 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder the Third in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 327/2 Open brackets, this is not a joke, I do not find my name remotely funny and people who do end up dead, close brackets.
1991 B. Elton Gridlock (2006) 23 In desperation he opened a bracket. Impulsively he wrote, ‘Just joking, really, it's been great working with you’... Geoffrey closed the bracket.
2003 Scotsman (Nexis) 30 May 7 What did she say? I can do no better than open the quotation marks and let the lassie holler.
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