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Brack
(gcide) | Brack \Brack\, n. [D. brak, adj., salt; cf. LG. wrak refuse, G.
brack.]
Salt or brackish water. [Obs.] --Drayton.
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Brack
(gcide) | Brack \Brack\ (br[a^]k), n. [Cf.D. braak, Dan. br[ae]k, a
breaking, Sw. & Icel. brak a crackling, creaking. Cf.
Breach.]
An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack
or breach; a flaw.
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Stain or brack in her sweet reputation. --J. Fletcher.
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bracken
(mass) | bracken
- papradie |
bracket
(mass) | bracket
- zátvorka, držiak |
age bracket
(encz) | age bracket,vrstevníci n: "skupina lidí mající přibližně stejný věk" |
angle bracket
(encz) | angle bracket,úhlová závorka n: [mat.] |
bracken
(encz) | bracken,kapradí Zdeněk Brož |
bracket
(encz) | bracket,držák n: Zdeněk Brožbracket,skupina Mgr. Dita Gálovábracket,třída Mgr. Dita Gálovábracket,závorka n: [mat.] |
bracket creep
(encz) | bracket creep,zdaňování v progresivně vyšší sazbě [eko.] RNDr. Pavel
Piskač |
bracketed
(encz) | bracketed,uzávorkovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
bracketing
(encz) | bracketing,uzávorkování n: Zdeněk Brož |
brackets
(encz) | brackets,závorky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
brackish
(encz) | brackish,poloslaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
brackish water
(encz) | brackish water,brakická voda [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
curly bracket
(encz) | curly bracket,složená závorka n: [mat.] {} |
false bracken
(encz) | false bracken, n: |
gas bracket
(encz) | gas bracket,rameno plynového hořáku n: PetrV |
high income bracket
(encz) | high income bracket,skupina s vyššími příjmy Mgr. Dita Gálová |
in the top tax bracket
(encz) | in the top tax bracket,nejvyšší daňová skupina [ekon.] RNDr. Pavel
Piskač |
income bracket
(encz) | income bracket, n: |
income tax bracket
(encz) | income tax bracket, n: |
price bracket
(encz) | price bracket, n: |
round bracket
(encz) | round bracket,kulatá závorka n: [mat.] |
shelf bracket
(encz) | shelf bracket, n: |
side-bracket
(encz) | side-bracket,jednoramenný pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
square bracket
(encz) | square bracket,hranatá závorka n: [mat.] |
subrack
(encz) | subrack,kostra tech. parkmaj |
tax bracket
(encz) | tax bracket, n: |
unbracketed
(encz) | unbracketed, |
Bracken
(gcide) | Bracken \Brack"en\, n. [OE. braken, AS. bracce. See 2d Brake,
n.]
A brake or fern. --Sir W. Scott.
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Bracket
(gcide) | Bracket \Brack"et\, n. [Cf. OF. braguette codpiece, F. brayette,
Sp. bragueta, also a projecting mold in architecture; dim.
fr. L. bracae breeches; cf. also, OF. bracon beam, prop,
support; of unknown origin. Cf. Breeches.]
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1. (Arch.) 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.
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Note: This is the more general word. See Brace,
Cantalever, Console, Corbel, Strut.
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2. (Engin. & Mech.) 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.
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3. (Naut.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as
a support.
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4. (Mil.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
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5. (Print.) 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.
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6. A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a
wall, column, or the like.
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7. (Gunnery) A figure determined by firing a projectile
beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for
ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only
used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the
bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate
elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the
United States navy it is called fork.
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Bracket light, a gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall,
column, etc.
[1913 Webster]Bracket \Brack"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bracketed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Bracketing]
1. To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to
furnish with brackets.
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2. (Gunnery) To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an
object).
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Bracket light
(gcide) | Bracket \Brack"et\, n. [Cf. OF. braguette codpiece, F. brayette,
Sp. bragueta, also a projecting mold in architecture; dim.
fr. L. bracae breeches; cf. also, OF. bracon beam, prop,
support; of unknown origin. Cf. Breeches.]
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1. (Arch.) 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.
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Note: This is the more general word. See Brace,
Cantalever, Console, Corbel, Strut.
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2. (Engin. & Mech.) 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.
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3. (Naut.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as
a support.
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4. (Mil.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
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5. (Print.) 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.
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6. A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a
wall, column, or the like.
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7. (Gunnery) A figure determined by firing a projectile
beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for
ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only
used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the
bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate
elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the
United States navy it is called fork.
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Bracket light, a gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall,
column, etc.
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Bracketed
(gcide) | Bracket \Brack"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bracketed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Bracketing]
1. To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to
furnish with brackets.
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2. (Gunnery) To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an
object).
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Bracketing
(gcide) | Bracketing \Brack"et*ing\, n. (Arch.)
A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
[1913 Webster]Bracket \Brack"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bracketed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Bracketing]
1. To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to
furnish with brackets.
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2. (Gunnery) To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an
object).
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Brackish
(gcide) | Brackish \Brack"ish\, a. [See Brack salt water.]
Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline
soil.
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Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish
though they be. --Byron.
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Brackishness
(gcide) | Brackishness \Brack"ish*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.
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Bracky
(gcide) | Bracky \Brack"y\, a.
Brackish. --Drayton.
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Hair bracket
(gcide) | Hair \Hair\ (h[^a]r), n. [OE. her, heer, h[ae]r, AS. h[=ae]r;
akin to OFries. h[=e]r, D. & G. haar, OHG. & Icel. h[=a]r,
Dan. haar, Sw. h[*a]r; cf. Lith. kasa.]
1. The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin
of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the
head or for any part or the whole of the body.
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2. One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in
vertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free
and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.
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Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs.
--Chaucer.
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And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.
--Spenser.
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3. Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair
for stuffing cushions.
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4. (Zool.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of
insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates.
Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in
structure, composition, and mode of growth.
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5. (Bot.) An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or
of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or
stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the
yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
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6. A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
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7. A haircloth. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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8. Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
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Note: Hairs is often used adjectively or in combination; as,
hairbrush or hair brush, hair dye, hair oil, hairpin,
hair powder, a brush, a dye, etc., for the hair.
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Against the hair, in a rough and disagreeable manner;
against the grain. [Obs.] "You go against the hair of your
professions." --Shak.
Hair bracket (Ship Carp.), a molding which comes in at the
back of, or runs aft from, the figurehead.
Hair cells (Anat.), cells with hairlike processes in the
sensory epithelium of certain parts of the internal ear.
Hair compass, Hair divider, a compass or divider capable
of delicate adjustment by means of a screw.
Hair glove, a glove of horsehair for rubbing the skin.
Hair lace, a netted fillet for tying up the hair of the
head. --Swift.
Hair line, a line made of hair; a very slender line.
Hair moth (Zool.), any moth which destroys goods made of
hair, esp. Tinea biselliella.
Hair pencil, a brush or pencil made of fine hair, for
painting; -- generally called by the name of the hair
used; as, a camel's hair pencil, a sable's hair pencil,
etc.
Hair plate, an iron plate forming the back of the hearth of
a bloomery fire.
Hair powder, a white perfumed powder, as of flour or
starch, formerly much used for sprinkling on the hair of
the head, or on wigs.
Hair seal (Zool.), any one of several species of eared
seals which do not produce fur; a sea lion.
Hair seating, haircloth for seats of chairs, etc.
Hair shirt, a shirt, or a band for the loins, made of
horsehair, and worn as a penance.
Hair sieve, a strainer with a haircloth bottom.
Hair snake. See Gordius.
Hair space (Printing), the thinnest metal space used in
lines of type.
Hair stroke, a delicate stroke in writing.
Hair trigger, a trigger so constructed as to discharge a
firearm by a very slight pressure, as by the touch of a
hair. --Farrow.
Not worth a hair, of no value.
To a hair, with the nicest distinction.
To split hairs, to make distinctions of useless nicety.
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Shabrack
(gcide) | Shabrack \Shab"rack\, n. [Turk. tsh[=a]pr[=a]k, whence F.
chabraque, G. shabracke.] (Mil.)
The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse.
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age bracket
(wn) | age bracket
n 1: a group of people having approximately the same age [syn:
age group, age bracket, cohort] |
angle bracket
(wn) | angle bracket
n 1: either of two punctuation marks (` |
barmbrack
(wn) | barmbrack
n 1: a rich currant cake or bun |
bracken
(wn) | bracken
n 1: fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate
regions [syn: bracken, Pteridium esculentum]
2: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed
ferns; cosmopolitan [syn: bracken, pasture brake,
brake, Pteridium aquilinum] |
bracket
(wn) | bracket
n 1: a category falling within certain defined limits
2: either of two punctuation marks (` |
bracket creep
(wn) | bracket creep
n 1: a movement into a higher tax bracket as taxable income
increases |
bracket fungus
(wn) | bracket fungus
n 1: a woody fungus that forms shelflike sporophores on tree
trunks and wood structures [syn: bracket fungus, {shelf
fungus}] |
bracket out
(wn) | bracket out
v 1: place into brackets; "Please bracket this remark" [syn:
bracket, bracket out] |
bracketed blenny
(wn) | bracketed blenny
n 1: small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the
northern Atlantic [syn: gunnel, bracketed blenny] |
brackish
(wn) | brackish
adj 1: distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin
brackish gruel"
2: slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of
seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny
deep" [syn: brackish, briny] |
brackishness
(wn) | brackishness
n 1: the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water |
false bracken
(wn) | false bracken
n 1: resembles Pteridium aquilinum; of Queensland, Australia
[syn: false bracken, Culcita dubia] |
french bracken
(wn) | French bracken
n 1: large deeply rooted fern of worldwide distribution with
upright bipinnate compound tufted fronds [syn: {royal
fern}, royal osmund, king fern, ditch fern, {French
bracken}, Osmunda regalis] |
gas bracket
(wn) | gas bracket
n 1: a pipe with one or more burners projecting from a wall |
income bracket
(wn) | income bracket
n 1: a category of taxpayers based on the amount of their income
[syn: income bracket, tax bracket, {income tax
bracket}] |
income tax bracket
(wn) | income tax bracket
n 1: a category of taxpayers based on the amount of their income
[syn: income bracket, tax bracket, {income tax
bracket}] |
price bracket
(wn) | price bracket
n 1: a category of merchandise based on their price |
shelf bracket
(wn) | shelf bracket
n 1: a bracket to support a shelf |
square bracket
(wn) | square bracket
n 1: either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose
textual material [syn: bracket, square bracket] |
tax bracket
(wn) | tax bracket
n 1: a category of taxpayers based on the amount of their income
[syn: income bracket, tax bracket, {income tax
bracket}] |
wall bracket
(wn) | wall bracket
n 1: a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) [syn:
bracket, wall bracket] |
angle bracket
(foldoc) | angle bracket
Either of the characters "" (greater-than, ASCII 62). Typographers in the
Real World use angle brackets which are either taller and
slimmer (the ISO "Bra" and "Ket" characters), or
significantly smaller (single or double guillemets) than the
less-than and greater-than signs.
See broket.
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bracket
(foldoc) | bracket
(Or square bracket) A left bracket or {right
bracket}.
Often used loosely for parentheses, square brackets,
braces, angle brackets, or any other kind of unequal
paired delimiters.
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bracket abstraction
(foldoc) | bracket abstraction
An algorithm which turns a term into a function
of some variable. The result of using bracket abstraction on
T with respect to variable v, written as [v]T, is a term
containing no occurrences of v and denoting a function f such
that f v = T. This defines the function f = (\ v . T). Using
bracket abstraction and currying we can define a language
without bound variables in which the only operation is
monadic function application.
See combinator.
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curly bracket
(foldoc) | curly bracket
brace
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egyptian brackets
(foldoc) | Egyptian brackets
A humourous term for K&R indent style,
referring to the "one hand up in front, one down behind" pose
which popular culture inexplicably associates with Egypt.
[{Dodgy Coder
(http://www.dodgycoder.net/2011/11/yoda-conditions-pokemon-exception.html)}].
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left bracket
(foldoc) | left bracket
"[". ASCII character 91.
Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket;
bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn.
Paired with right bracket ("]").
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right bracket
(foldoc) | right bracket
"]". ASCII character 93.
Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket;
unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back.
Paired with left bracket.
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angle brackets
(jargon) | angle brackets
n.
Either of the characters < (ASCII 0111100) and > (ASCII 0111110) (ASCII
less-than or greater-than signs). Typographers in the Real World use
angle brackets which are either taller and slimmer (the ISO lang 〈 and
rang 〉 characters), or significantly smaller (single or double guillemets)
than the less-than and greater-than signs. See broket, ASCII.
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