Bracket
noun
A support attached to a wall for holding up a shelf or something similar.
We fixed the shelf to the wall with brackets
Often appears as...
- fix brackets
- wall brackets
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Technical
noun
Either of two symbols put around words, phrases, or numbers to show that they are considered as a single unit.
We use brackets in math to group numbers or terms together.
Often appears as...
- open bracket
- close bracket
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Academic
verb
To place something in the same category or group.
The two singers are often bracketed together because they have a similar style
Often appears as...
- bracketed together
- often bracketed
noun
A category of people or things that are similar or fall within a certain range.
The survey results are broken down by age bracket.
Often appears as...
- age bracket
- income bracket
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Academic
verb
To surround or enclose something.
He bracketed the title of the book in quotation marks
Often appears as...
- bracketed in
- bracketed with
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Academic
noun
A support attached to a wall for holding up a shelf or something similar.
We fixed the shelf to the wall with brackets
Often appears as...
- fix brackets
- wall brackets
Usage tips
Technical
noun
Either of two symbols put around words, phrases, or numbers to show that they are considered as a single unit.
We use brackets in math to group numbers or terms together.
Often appears as...
- open bracket
- close bracket
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To place something in the same category or group.
The two singers are often bracketed together because they have a similar style
Often appears as...
- bracketed together
- often bracketed
noun
A category of people or things that are similar or fall within a certain range.
The survey results are broken down by age bracket.
Often appears as...
- age bracket
- income bracket
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To surround or enclose something.
He bracketed the title of the book in quotation marks
Often appears as...
- bracketed in
- bracketed with
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Hardware Installations
Used often in DIY contexts, it refers to the physical support for items.
I bought two brackets for the kitchen shelves.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Just Shelves
Can support various objects, not limited to shelving.
Hang the plant from a ceiling bracket.
Pro Tip 1/2Hardware Installations
Used often in DIY contexts, it refers to the physical support for items.
I bought two brackets for the kitchen shelves.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Just Shelves
Can support various objects, not limited to shelving.
Hang the plant from a ceiling bracket.
Pro Tip 1/2Hardware Installations
Used often in DIY contexts, it refers to the physical support for items.
I bought two brackets for the kitchen shelves.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Just Shelves
Can support various objects, not limited to shelving.
Hang the plant from a ceiling bracket.
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A vehicle built in...
It's a burgeoning group, and without much demand from industry, most of these suppliers have no impetus to grow. We've worked hard with a few of them to develop the capacity to consistently manufacture components at the quality levels we need, like this supplier in Nairobi, who are helping to reduce the production cost of metal brackets
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Apollo Robbins on...
make the assumption that there's they have free will when the choices that are laid out before them or a or b do you want to write this or this but actually you have options C or D they're just not on the menu in front of you so those techniques can be very effective and guiding choices when you bracket what
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Matthew Carter: My life...
I made a serif type, you can see it on the right, without curved serifs. I made them polygonal, out of straight line segments, chamfered brackets. And look, as economical in data as a sans serif. We call it Charter, on the right. So I went to the head of engineering with my numbers, and I said proudly,
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Samantha Power: Shaking...
But by the end of his life, I think he had struck a balance that we as a country can learn from. Be in the room, don't be afraid of talking to your adversaries, but don't bracket what happened before you entered the room. Don't black-box history. Don't check your principles at the door.
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Inside the Dead Shed PIPE...
When we did further investigations, we saw that these items were being advertised on Instagram. On Instagram. Yeah. And then once that then puts it in the trade bracket. So we then needed to check whether they had permits to import these items for trade. The permits were missing.
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An inventory of the...
Try as he might, he couldn't get away from her. A few days later he received a letter from a constituent saying how much she admired him, had met him at a fete and asking for a signed photograph. After her name, written in brackets was the apt description, horse face.
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Bastian Schaefer: A...
because structure is one of the key issues in aircraft design. So let's compare the old world with the new world. I just want to show you here what we are doing today. So this is a bracket of an A380 crew rest compartment. It takes a lot of weight,
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Do tax cuts stimulate...
cuts from a lower tax rate might be counterproductive, hampering the government's ability to accomplish crucial things. Tax rates were extremely high when Reagan took office. His administration cut the highest income tax bracket from 70% to 28%
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Why are these 32 symbols...
with its symmetrical markings on the left, possible stylized representations of hands in the middle, and what looks a bit like a bracket on the right. The oldest systems of graphic communication in the world --
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Constructing the...
step 3 workers suspended on the side of the building help ease the window down to the floor below and bolt it to brackets already in place
Video examples
A vehicle built in...
It's a burgeoning group, and without much demand from industry, most of these suppliers have no impetus to grow. We've worked hard with a few of them to develop the capacity to consistently manufacture components at the quality levels we need, like this supplier in Nairobi, who are helping to reduce the production cost of metal brackets
Video examples
Apollo Robbins on...
make the assumption that there's they have free will when the choices that are laid out before them or a or b do you want to write this or this but actually you have options C or D they're just not on the menu in front of you so those techniques can be very effective and guiding choices when you bracket what
Video examples
Matthew Carter: My life...
I made a serif type, you can see it on the right, without curved serifs. I made them polygonal, out of straight line segments, chamfered brackets. And look, as economical in data as a sans serif. We call it Charter, on the right. So I went to the head of engineering with my numbers, and I said proudly,
Video examples
Samantha Power: Shaking...
But by the end of his life, I think he had struck a balance that we as a country can learn from. Be in the room, don't be afraid of talking to your adversaries, but don't bracket what happened before you entered the room. Don't black-box history. Don't check your principles at the door.
Video examples
Inside the Dead Shed PIPE...
When we did further investigations, we saw that these items were being advertised on Instagram. On Instagram. Yeah. And then once that then puts it in the trade bracket. So we then needed to check whether they had permits to import these items for trade. The permits were missing.
Video examples
An inventory of the...
Try as he might, he couldn't get away from her. A few days later he received a letter from a constituent saying how much she admired him, had met him at a fete and asking for a signed photograph. After her name, written in brackets was the apt description, horse face.
Video examples
Bastian Schaefer: A...
because structure is one of the key issues in aircraft design. So let's compare the old world with the new world. I just want to show you here what we are doing today. So this is a bracket of an A380 crew rest compartment. It takes a lot of weight,
Video examples
Do tax cuts stimulate...
cuts from a lower tax rate might be counterproductive, hampering the government's ability to accomplish crucial things. Tax rates were extremely high when Reagan took office. His administration cut the highest income tax bracket from 70% to 28%
Video examples
Why are these 32 symbols...
with its symmetrical markings on the left, possible stylized representations of hands in the middle, and what looks a bit like a bracket on the right. The oldest systems of graphic communication in the world --
Video examples
Constructing the...
step 3 workers suspended on the side of the building help ease the window down to the floor below and bolt it to brackets already in place
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Alexandre Lacazette
French Athlete
I can't put everyone in the same bracket, but many haven't got over the old Lacazette and the perception that I was a bit of a lazy striker who didn't really work hard for the team. At least, I thought I was working hard, but I didn't really know how to help my team-mates.
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Clifford D. Simak
American Writer
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.
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Shefali Shah
Being an actress has the same requirements as being an actor, but it needs more. Fair, reed thin, tall, can lip-synch, can dance, can fight, ideally can act, has to be single all her life and most importantly, needs to be PG18 bracket.
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Malcolm Jenkins
American Athlete
I could easily vote for things that benefit me taxwise, but the rest of my family is not in this tax bracket. So when I vote, I try to keep in mind my family and my community and what I think is best for the nation as a whole.
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Charles Vest
American Educator
I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.
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Paolo Nutini
Scottish Musician
I'm in the highest bracket. There's no way that a 22-year-old should be hit for that amount of money when he's got his whole life ahead of him.
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Simon Bird
English Actor
I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.
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Chris Arreola
American Boxer
The more you win, the more you get paid. I'm not trying to get paid less money. I've worked too hard to get into this tax bracket.
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Koel Mallick
Indian Actress
Every film boils down to relationships. It is the way you look at things, at life and you bracket them.
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Sharmila Tagore
Indian Actress
Every age bracket has to be respected and it should be embraced naturally.
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Alexandre Lacazette
French Athlete
I can't put everyone in the same bracket, but many haven't got over the old Lacazette and the perception that I was a bit of a lazy striker who didn't really work hard for the team. At least, I thought I was working hard, but I didn't really know how to help my team-mates.
Quote examples
Clifford D. Simak
American Writer
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.
Quote examples
Shefali Shah
Being an actress has the same requirements as being an actor, but it needs more. Fair, reed thin, tall, can lip-synch, can dance, can fight, ideally can act, has to be single all her life and most importantly, needs to be PG18 bracket.
Quote examples
Malcolm Jenkins
American Athlete
I could easily vote for things that benefit me taxwise, but the rest of my family is not in this tax bracket. So when I vote, I try to keep in mind my family and my community and what I think is best for the nation as a whole.
Quote examples
Charles Vest
American Educator
I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.
Quote examples
Paolo Nutini
Scottish Musician
I'm in the highest bracket. There's no way that a 22-year-old should be hit for that amount of money when he's got his whole life ahead of him.
Quote examples
Simon Bird
English Actor
I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.
Quote examples
Chris Arreola
American Boxer
The more you win, the more you get paid. I'm not trying to get paid less money. I've worked too hard to get into this tax bracket.
Quote examples
Koel Mallick
Indian Actress
Every film boils down to relationships. It is the way you look at things, at life and you bracket them.
Quote examples
Sharmila Tagore
Indian Actress
Every age bracket has to be respected and it should be embraced naturally.
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