Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense brackets, present participle bracketing, past tense, past participle bracketed
1. countable noun [usually noun NOUN]
If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range, for example a range of incomes, ages, or prices.
...a 33% top tax rate on everyone in these high-income brackets.
Do you fall outside that age bracket?
Synonyms: grouping, limits, group, list More Synonyms of bracket
2. countable noun
Brackets are pieces of metal, wood, or plastic that are fastened to a wall in order to support something such as a shelf.
Fix the beam with the brackets and screws.
...adjustable wall brackets.
Synonyms: support, stay, post, prop More Synonyms of bracket
3. verb
If two or more people or things are bracketedtogether, they are considered to be similar or related in some way.
Small businesses are being bracketed together as high risk, regardless of their businessplans and previous histories. [beV-ed with together]
Austrian wine styles are often bracketed with those of northern Germany. [beVERB-ed + with]
Synonyms: group, rank, arrange, grade More Synonyms of bracket
4. countable noun [usually plural, oft inNOUN]
Brackets are a pair of written marks that you place round a word, expression, or sentence in order to indicate that you are giving extra information. In British English, curved marks like these are also called brackets, but in American English, they are called parenthesis.
The prices in brackets are special rates for the under 18s.
My annotations appear in square brackets.
5. countable noun [usually plural]
Brackets are pair of marks that are placed around a series of symbols in a mathematical expression to indicate that those symbols function as one item within the expression.
English Easy Learning GrammarBrackets ( )Brackets (also called parentheses) are used to enclose a word or words which can beleft out and still leave a meaningful sentence. The wooded area (see ... Read more
bracket in British English
(ˈbrækɪt)
noun
1.
an L-shaped or other support fixed to a wall to hold a shelf, etc
2.
one or more wall shelves carried on brackets
3. architecture
a support projecting from the side of a wall or other structure
See also corbel, ancon, console2
4. Also called: square bracket
either of a pair of characters, [ ], used to enclose a section of writing or printing to separate it from the main text
5. a general name for parenthesis, square bracket, brace (sense 6)
6.
a group or category falling within or between certain defined limits
the lower income bracket
7.
the distance between two preliminary shots of artillery fire in range-finding
8.
a skating figure consisting of two arcs meeting at a point, tracing the shape ⋎
verbWord forms: -kets, -keting or -keted(transitive)
9.
to fix or support by means of a bracket or brackets
10.
to put (written or printed matter) in brackets, esp as being irrelevant, spurious, or bearing a separate relationship of some kind to the rest of the text
11.
to couple or join (two lines of text, etc) with a brace
12. (often foll by with)
to group or class together
to bracket Marx with the philosophers
13.
to adjust (artillery fire) until the target is hit
Word origin
C16: from Old French braguette codpiece, diminutive of bragues breeches, from Old Provençal braga, from Latin brāca breeches
bracket in American English
(ˈbrækɪt)
noun
1.
an architectural support projecting from a wall, as a corbel
2.
any angle-shaped support, esp. one in the form of a right triangle
3.
a wall shelf or shelves held up by brackets
4.
a wall fixture, as for a small electric lamp
5.
either of the pair of signs [ ], or sometimes < >, used to enclose a word or words inserted as for explanation, quantities to be taken as a single quantity, etc.
6.
the part of a classified, graded grouping that falls within specified limits
the $30,000 to $40,000 income bracket
7.
a.
the interval between the ranges of two rounds of artillery fire, as one over and the other shortof the target, used to find the correct range
The taxman will add the payment to your earnings for the year, meaning that some employees will be pushed into higher tax brackets.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She doesn't sound upset by this, but she knows it puts her in a certain bracket.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It is concluding that they have two jobs, thus putting them in a higher tax bracket, the institute said in a release today.
Computing (2010)
They come with wall brackets and need to be fixed to a surface.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Balance the shelf on this bracket and position the second bracket.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
There are also bursaries for those drawn from the lowest income brackets.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
To bracket these two tumours makes no sense.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
This would have put many family houses into higher council tax brackets.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
So translators often put them in brackets or as a long footnote.
Christianity Today (2000)
Men in the same age bracket are too pessimistic by about two years.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
These can often be stored on a wall on brackets.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Their combined income puts them in the middle income bracket.
McKenzie, James F. & Pinger, Robert R. An Introduction to Community Health (1995)
Their reward has been a higher tax bracket.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The figure in brackets represents the number expected to do so given the subject and social mix at the university.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The measure pushed thousands more into the already swelling 40% tax bracket.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
To fix, attach bracket to wall with the fittings supplied.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The figures in brackets are capital growth in the past 12 months.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But for many, the viable property options within a certain price bracket are few and far between.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Of course, car makers target people in particular income brackets and in terms of what they want from a car.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Fix bracket at each end.
Churchill, Jane (ed.) Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings (1993)
I suggest that he's not exactly in the same bracket as those two.
The Sun (2008)
An adjustable track system, a long strip of metal with a series of metal slots for shelf brackets, allows for flexibility.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Word lists with
bracket
terms used in architecture, architectural features
In other languages
bracket
British English: bracket NOUN
If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range.
...a 33% top tax rate on everyone in these high-income brackets.
American English: bracket
Brazilian Portuguese: classe
Chinese: > 范围收入、年龄、价格等的
European Spanish: gama
French: tranche
German: Gruppe
Italian: fascia
Japanese: 階層
Korean: 집단
European Portuguese: classe
Latin American Spanish: gama
British English: bracket VERB
If two or more people or things are bracketed together, they are considered to be similar or related in some way.
The Magi, Bramins, and Druids were bracketed together as men of wisdom.
American English: bracket
Brazilian Portuguese: agrupar
Chinese: > 相提并论收入、年龄、价格等的
European Spanish: agrupar
French: mettre dans la même catégorie
German: zusammenfassen
Italian: considerare alla stessa stregua
Japanese: 同類に扱う
Korean: 같은 범주로 보다
European Portuguese: agrupar
Latin American Spanish: agrupar
All related terms of 'bracket'
age bracket
the group of people born at a particular time
gas bracket
a metal pipe projecting from the wall of an apartment , used to support gas lamps and to supply them with gas
tax bracket
a category of taxpayer which is based on how high or low their income is
angle bracket
either of a pair of brackets having the shapes < and >
brace bracket
a hand tool for drilling holes, with a socket to hold the drill at one end and a cranked handle by which the tool can be turned
bracket creep
an advance into a higher income tax bracket resulting from an increase in nominal income: the higher taxes, when combined with the effects of inflation , may produce a decline in real income
bracket lamp
a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
curly bracket
a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
lamp bracket
a bracket for holding a lamp
price bracket
a notional range of prices which consumers are prepared to pay for a good
bracket fungus
any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae , growing as a shelflike mass ( bracket ) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
income bracket
a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
salary bracket
a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
square bracket
either of a pair of characters [ ], used to enclose a section of writing or printing to separate it from the main text