bracket
US: /ˈbɹækɪt/
UK: /bɹˈækɪt/
UK: /bɹˈækɪt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
bracket /'brækit/
- danh từ
- (kiến trúc) côngxon, rầm chia
- dấu ngoặc đơn; dấu móc; dấu ngoặc ôm
- to put between brackets: để trong ngoặc đơn; để trong móc; để trong dấu ngoặc ôm
- (quân sự) giá đỡ nòng (súng đại bác)
- (quân sự) khoảng cách giữa hai phát đạn trên và dưới (mục tiêu) để quan trắc
- income bracket
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) nhóm người đóng thuế xếp theo thu hoạch
- ngoại động từ
- gộp lại trong dấu ngoặc; đặt trong dấu ngoặc
- xếp (hai hay nhiều người) đồng hạng
- A and B were bracketed for the fierst prize: A và B đều được xếp vào giải nhất
- (quân sự) bắn hai phát đạn trên và dưới (mục tiêu) để quan trắc
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
1 (also round bracket) (both BrE) (also parenthesis AmE or formal) [usually pl.] either of a pair of marks, ( ) placed around extra information in a piece of writing or part of a problem in mathematics: Publication dates are given in brackets after each title. + Add the numbers in brackets first.
See also -
Compare: BRACE
2 [usually pl.] (AmE) = SQUARE BRACKET
3 price, age, income, etc. ~ prices, etc. within a particular range: people in the lower income bracket + Most of the houses are out of our price bracket. + the 3034 age bracket (= people aged between 30 and 34)
4 a piece of wood, metal or plastic fixed to the wall to support a shelf, lamp, etc.
+ verb [VN]
1 to put words, information, etc. between brackets
2 ~ A and B (together)
~ 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.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 support, corbel, console:
The mantelpiece rests on a pair of stone brackets.
2 shelf:
Her collection of glass paperweights was arrayed on a bracket in the sitting-room.
3 category, class, set, group, grouping, classification, division, level; order, grade, rank:
He comes from an altogether different bracket of society.
v.
4 classify, rank, group; unite, combine, join, link:
I wish you wouldn't bracket her with me - our politics are as different as day and night.
Collocation dictionary
1 brackets marks round extra information in writing
ADJ.
angle, curly, round, square
VERB + BRACKET
enclose sth in, give sth in, put sth in
The prices are given in square brackets.
PREP.
in
The words in brackets should be deleted.
| inside, outside, within
The numbers outside the curly brackets are the sales figures.
2 range
ADJ.
age, income, price, tax | higher, top, upper | middle | lower
PREP.
in/within
These machines are in the higher price bracket.
| outside
people outside this age bracket
Concise English dictionary
brackets|bracketed|bracketing'brækɪt
noun
+a category falling within certain defined limits
+either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material
+either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material
+an L-shaped support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf)
verb
+support with brackets
+place into brackets
+classify or group
