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# bracket

noun (bracket, brackets); verb (bracket, brackets, bracketed, bracketing)

«bracket» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Brackets are the marks ( ) put around numbers in a sum to show which part to work out first. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/#m1)
2. In writing, brackets hold extra words that are not needed for the sentence to make sense. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/#m2)
3. A bracket is a metal or wooden support fixed to a wall to hold up a shelf. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/#m3)
4. A bracket is a group or range: «the 8–10 age bracket». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/#m4)

### In the lessons

in maths, the part of a calculation done first; in stories, a support that holds a shelf; in English: brackets (parentheses) for extra information; kinds: round ( ), square \[ \], curly { }; in everyday life: «age bracket», «price bracket»; in the USA round brackets are called parentheses

### Examples

- Work out (3 + 4) × 2. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/#x1)
- In 20 − (5 + 3), add 5 and 3 first. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/#x2)
- Put brackets in 6 + 4 × 2 to make 20. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/#x3)
- Each shelf needs 2 brackets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/#x4)
- My cousin (who lives in Wales) is coming to stay. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/#x5)
- Close the bracket after the last number. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/#x6)
- Dad screwed the brackets to the wall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/#x7)
- The race is for children in the 9–11 age bracket. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/#x8)
- She threw her broom at the bird, who was perched on a bracket high up on the wall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/#x9)

### Note

Tells the order of operations: work inside the brackets first. Trap: 20 − (5 + 3) = 12 but 20 − 5 + 3 = 18; brackets change the answer. Every opening bracket needs a closing one. Order: brackets, then × and ÷, then + and −.

## In Jewish tradition

A part of the building in Ezekiel's vision of the Temple, probably a support or ledge.

**Interpretation.** The detailed plans of the future Temple are read as showing that holiness lives in careful order.

### Examples

- And there were narrow windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch; there were also the brackets of the house, and the thick beams. (Prophets EZK.41.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bracket/#x1)

### Note

Tells the order of operations: work inside the brackets first. Trap: 20 − (5 + 3) = 12 but 20 − 5 + 3 = 18; brackets change the answer. Every opening bracket needs a closing one. Order: brackets, then × and ÷, then + and −.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bracket» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracket/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bracket» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bracket.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «bracket» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bracket/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bracket» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/bracket.html) on Mova free.