bracketnoun詞源 1/ˈbɹækɪt/

• 1

  A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.

• 2

  engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesAny intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.

  • To determine if your frame has this bottom bracket type, look for a notched and possibly knurled lockring on the left side (the side without the chainrings).
  • Not only does the attachment on the tooth surface (called a bracket) allow the tooth to be moved vertically or tilted, but also a force couple can be generated by the interaction between the bracket and an archwire running through the bracket.
• 3

  nauticaltransportA short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.

• 4

  governmentmilitarypoliticsThe cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.

• 5

  Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.

• 6

  Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.

• 7

  hobbieslifestylesportsA diagram of games in a tournament.

• 8

  hobbieslifestylesportsA prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.

bracketverb詞源 1/ˈbɹækɪt/

• 1

  To support by means of mechanical brackets.

• 2

  To enclose in typographical brackets.

• 3

  To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.

• 4

  To place in the same category.

  • Because they didn’t have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year-olds with the eight-year-olds.
  • Some villain who knows nothing about it comes into it for money and so the labours of honest mediums get discounted. The public very naturally brackets them all together.
• 5

  To mark distinctly for special treatment.

  • Next, since so much social activity is defined by being bracketed out of the world of ongoing events, it becomes possible that outside such bracketed episodes, […] people are — especially beforehand, but also afterwards — to some extent "out of role", and so off their guard.
• 6

  To set aside, discount, ignore.

  • SIL got access to academic legitimacy; linguists bracketed the evangelical engine that drives SIL because they got access to data and tools.
• 7

  governmentmilitarypoliticsTo gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.

• 8

  artshobbieslifestyleTo take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• bragget