bracketing

as injoin
as inlink
as inassociate
as inpair
as inrange
as inrelate
as inunderline
as inyoke
as incoalesce
as incollate
as incombine
as incompare
as incompound
as incontrast
as incouple
as ingroup
as ingroup

Synonyms for bracketing

verb unite

Antonyms for bracketing

Word Origin & History

1570s, bragget, "architectural support," probably from Middle French braguette "codpiece armor" (16c.), from a fancied resemblance of architectural supports to that article of attire (Spanish cognate bragueta meant both "codpiece" and "bracket"), diminutive of brague "knee pants," ultimately from Gaulish *braca "pants," itself perhaps from Germanic (cf. Old English broc "garment for the legs and trunk;" see breeches). The sense might reflect the "breeches" sense, on the notion of two limbs or of appliances used in pairs. The typographical bracket is first recorded 1750, so called for its resemblance to double supports in carpentry (a sense attested from 1610s). Senses affected by Latin brachium "arm."

Example Sentences for bracketing

This bracketing of Hildas injury with hers stank in Katherines nostrils.

Friedlaender, in bracketing Cumis, has not taken this sufficiently into consideration.

This gallery is sometimes supported upon a deep system of bracketing, corbelled out from the feet of the main pillars.

The process is very like what artillery men tell of "bracketing" the object fired at, and then landing fairly on it.

McGillicuddy had a way of bracketing the Deity with commanding officers, and did it with much simplicity and meant no irreverence.

Certainly, an English critic would never have thought of bracketing together such a pair.

A witty bishop once scandalized his hearers by bracketing Bradshaw with the Bible as an indispensable book.

The bracketing of the names of Shakespeare and Swedenborg is eminently well.

Our guns added their help, and they fired many rounds down the Menin road, bracketing the ditches.

More followed, and, after bracketing, seemed to centre about two hundred and fifty yards in front of us.