bracketとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From earlier bragget, *bracket, from Middle English *braget, *braket (attested in braket nail), from Old French braguette (“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches, one's fly”), a diminutive of Old French brague (“knickers, britches”), from Old Occitan braga, from Latin brāca (“pants”), from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, from Proto-Germanic *brāks, an early form of Proto-Germanic *brōks (“leggings, breeches, trousers”).

名詞

bracket (複数形 brackets)

2. A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
3. (engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
   • 2005, Todd Downs, The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance & Repair for Road and Mountain bikes, →ISBN:

     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).

   • 2013, Laura Mitchell, An Introduction to Orthodontics, →ISBN, page 220:

     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.

4. (nautical) A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
5. (military) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
6. Any of the characters "(", ")", "[", "]", "{", "}", "<" and ">", used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.
   1. (UK) "(" かつ ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
   2. (US) "[" and "]" specifically - as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
7. (sports) A printed diagram of games in a tournament.
8. (sports) A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
9. One of several ranges of numbers.

   tax bracket, age bracket

10. (algebra) A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
11. (military) Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
12. (typography) The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
13. (land surveying, 19th century) a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench.

同意語

• ("(" かつ ")"): parentheses, parens
• (land surveying): benchmark

下位語

• See also Thesaurus:bracket

派生語

参考

Punctuation

動詞

bracket (三人称単数 現在形 brackets, 現在分詞 bracketing, 過去形および過去分詞形 bracketed)

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 the didn't have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year olds with the eight-year olds.

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "Some villain who knows nothing about it comes into it for money and so the labours of the honest mediums get discounted. The public very naturally brackets them all together."

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. (military) To 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. (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.
9. (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.

名詞

bracket (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of bragget (“drink made with ale かつ honey”)

アナグラム

• betrack