to bracket

Examples

• All

• Prescriptive tendencies still happen no matter whether we try to bracket them out or how subtly they emerge.

  Academic text (2009)

• And if we know that they're of a certain age, we can then bracket it down even further, correct?

  Dr. Phil

• So that might be our next conversation maybe, but I'm just going to bracket that off.

• Let's just bracket that question and just focus directly on the question now of morality.

• All process notes were reviewed to bracket any biases out of the analysis.

  Academic text (2009)

• Some moral considerations may still be bracketed from that debate.

  Academic text (1999)

• Themes were bracketed according to participants' responses to the interview questions.

  Academic text (2013)

• One common strategy for dealing with this problem was to bracket or compartmentalize nostalgia.

  Academic text (1994)

• The time period of the 1980s to the 2000s is bracketed by two books that look at organizational improvement strategies.

  Academic text (2015)

• We are beginning to find that a politics that brackets morality and religion too completely soon generates its own disenchantment.

  Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

C

to classify

vsto bracket

110 3.4

To put people or things into groups based on shared features

focuses more on grouping for similarity reasons than on general ordering

C

to categorize

vsto bracket

• US

59 3.5

To put things or people into groups by what they have in common

allows grouping more generally rather than assigning to a single specific group

C

to class

vsto bracket

19 2.9

To put people or things into groups by shared features

is an alternative verb used for the same grouping action

A

to assort

vsto bracket

17 4.2

Put things into groups that are alike

focuses on grouping because of shared characteristics rather than grouping by differences

Phrasal Verbs

B

to bracket out

6.6

Put a word or short phrase in brackets to separate it from the text

Compounds

T

tax bracket

• Specialized

15 3.6

A range of income taxed at one rate

I

income bracket

8 3.5

A group of people who earn about the same amount of money for tax or benefit rules

A

age bracket

• Specialized

4 3.1

A group of people in a range of ages used to compare data

I

income tax bracket

1 4.0

A group that sets the tax rate people pay based on yearly earnings

B

bracket creep

• Literature

1 8.5

When inflation raises pay, people move into higher tax bands and pay more tax without getting richer

S

square bracket

1 3.7

A sign like [ or ] used to show words added in text

B

bracket fungus

• Specialized

7.9

A fungus that makes hard shelf shapes on tree trunks and other wood

A

angle bracket

• Specialized

5.2

Symbols < and > used to enclose tags in computer code

A

angle bracket

• Specialized

3.9

A metal L-shaped support used to join two pieces at a right angle

B

banana bracket

• Slang

9.1

An unusual tournament setup that makes winners hard to predict

G

gas bracket

• Archaic

9.9

A metal piece on a wall with a burner for gas light

P

price bracket

3.5

A group of things that cost about the same amount of money

S

shelf bracket

3.2

A metal or wooden support fixed to a wall that holds up a shelf

W

wall bracket

3.8

A strong piece fixed to a wall that sticks out and holds a shelf

How Inclusive

to lump

61 6.1

to group

38 1.2

to bracket

2 5.0

to classify

110 3.4

to distinguish

177 3.1

Surface Forms

Etymology