Definizione monolingua

bracket

bracket (third-person singular simple present brackets, present participle bracketing, simple past and past participle bracketed)

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

   I tried to hit the bullseye by first bracketing it with two shots and then splitting the difference with my third, but I missed.

2. To place in the same category.

   Because the didnt have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year olds with the eight-year olds.

3. To mark distinctly for special treatment.
   • 1992, Tom Burns, Erving Goffman, page 292:

     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.

4. To set aside, discount, ignore.
   • 2009, Michael Erard, “Holy Grammar, Inc.”, in Search Magazine, July–August 2009:

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

5. (photography) To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
6. (philosophy, phenomenology) In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.

bracket (plural brackets)

1. A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
2. (engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
3. Generically, any of ""("", "")"", ""["", ""]"", ""{"", ""}"", and, in the area of computer languages, ""<"", "">"".
4. ""("" and "")"" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
5. (technical) ""["" and ""]"" specifically - opposed to the other forms of which have their own technical names.
6. (sports)
   1. Printed diagram of games in a tournament.
   2. Prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.

Definizione dizionario bracket

	parentesi
	"(" and ")"

beccatello

	bracket
	A chained set of Request/Response units (RUs) and their responses, which together make up a transaction between two Logical units (LUs). One bracket must be finished before another can be started.

	tonda
	"(" and ")"

mensola

peduccio

raggruppare

staffa

supporto

Altri significati:

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

"(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.

To place in the same category.

To set aside, discount, ignore.

one of several ranges of numbers

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

technical: "[" and "]" specifically

(sports)

(engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.

To mark distinctly for special treatment.

(Technical) "[" and "]" specifically - opposed to the other forms of which have their own technical names.

item attached to a wall to hold up a shelf

sport: printed diagram of games in a tournament

Generically any of "(