bracket
bracket is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
- noun. A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
- noun. A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
- noun. The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
- noun. One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.
- noun. A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
- transitive verb. To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
- noun. a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf)
- noun. either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material
- noun. either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material
- noun. a category falling within certain defined limits
- verb. classify or group
- verb. place into brackets
"Please bracket this remark"
- verb. support with brackets
"bracket bookshelves"
Common word forms
brackets, bracketed, bracketing, bracketted
Words from these letters
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