bracket
verb/ˈbrækɪt/
/ˈbrækɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they bracket | /ˈbrækɪt/ /ˈbrækɪt/ |
| he / she / it brackets | /ˈbrækɪts/ /ˈbrækɪts/ |
| past simple bracketed | /ˈbrækɪtɪd/ /ˈbrækɪtɪd/ |
| past participle bracketed | /ˈbrækɪtɪd/ /ˈbrækɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form bracketing | /ˈbrækɪtɪŋ/ /ˈbrækɪtɪŋ/ |
- bracket something to put words, information, etc. between brackets
- bracket A and B (together) | bracket A (together) with B [often passive] to consider people or things to be similar or connected in some way
- It is unfair to bracket together those who cannot work with those who will not.
- He is sometimes wrongly bracketed with the ‘new wave’ film directors.
- The two writers are often bracketed together by critics.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French braguette or Spanish bragueta ‘codpiece, bracket, corbel’, from Provençal braga, from Latin braca, (plural) bracae ‘breeches’.
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