Word Meanings - BRACKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Note: This is the more general word. See Brace, Cantalever,

Additional info about word: BRACKET

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. Note: This is the more general word. See Brace, Cantalever, Console, Corbel, Strut. (more info) bragueta, also a projecting mold in architecture; dim. fr.L. bracae breeches; cf. also, OF. bracon beam, prop, support; of unknown

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRACKET)

• Clasp
• Grasp
• connect
• unite
• bracket
• concatenate
• embrace

Related words: (words related to BRACKET)

• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• CLASPER
  1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• CLASPERED
  Furnished with tendrils.
• GRASP
  1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
• CONCATENATE
  To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another. This all things friendly will concatenate. Dr. H. More
• EMBRACEOR
  One guilty of embracery.
• EMBRACERY
  An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
• CONNECTIVE
  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
• UNITEDLY
  In an united manner. Dryden.
• GRASPER
  One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
• UNITE
  1. To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together. 2. To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition.
• BRACKETING
  A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
• GRASPING
  1. Seizing; embracing; catching. 2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n.
• GRASPLESS
  Without a grasp; relaxed. From my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls. Coleridge.
• CONNECT
  Etym: 1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each
• UNITER
  One who, or that which, unites.
• GRASPABLE
  Capable of being grasped.
• RECLASP
  To clasp or unite again.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• ALUNITE
  Alum stone.
• REUNITEDLY
  In a reunited manner.
• BRAUNITE
  A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.
• ENCLASP
  To clasp. See Inclasp.
• PREMUNITE
  To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection. Fotherby.
• CLASP
  1. To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten . 2. To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace. 3. To surround and cling to; to entwine about. "Clasping ivy." Milton.