Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bracket
Participle: bracketed
Gerund: bracketing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bracket |
| you | bracket |
| he;she;it | brackets |
| we | bracket |
| you | bracket |
| they | bracket |
Perfect
| I | have bracketed |
| you | have bracketed |
| he;she;it | has bracketed |
| we | have bracketed |
| you | have bracketed |
| they | have bracketed |
Past
| I | bracketed |
| you | bracketed |
| he;she;it | bracketed |
| we | bracketed |
| you | bracketed |
| they | bracketed |
Pluperfect
| I | had bracketed |
| you | had bracketed |
| he;she;it | had bracketed |
| we | had bracketed |
| you | had bracketed |
| they | had bracketed |
Future
| I | will bracket |
| you | will bracket |
| he;she;it | will bracket |
| we | will bracket |
| you | will bracket |
| they | will bracket |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bracketed |
| you | will have bracketed |
| he;she;it | will have bracketed |
| we | will have bracketed |
| you | will have bracketed |
| they | will have bracketed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bracket |
| you | bracket |
| he;she;it | bracket |
| we | bracket |
| you | bracket |
| they | bracket |
Perfect
| I | have bracketed |
| you | have bracketed |
| he;she;it | have bracketed |
| we | have bracketed |
| you | have bracketed |
| they | have bracketed |
Imperfect
| I | bracketed |
| you | bracketed |
| he;she;it | bracketed |
| we | bracketed |
| you | bracketed |
| they | bracketed |
Pluperfect
| I | had bracketed |
| you | had bracketed |
| he;she;it | had bracketed |
| we | had bracketed |
| you | had bracketed |
| they | had bracketed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bracket |
| you | would bracket |
| he;she;it | would bracket |
| we | would bracket |
| you | would bracket |
| they | would bracket |
Perfect
| I | would have bracketed |
| you | would have bracketed |
| he;she;it | would have bracketed |
| we | would have bracketed |
| you | would have bracketed |
| they | would have bracketed |
Imperative
| you | bracket |
| we | Let's bracket |
| you | bracket |
Verbs conjugated like 'bracket'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bracket'
racket,
backset,
basket,
blacken,
blanket,
brace,
brake,
bucket,
clacket,
cricket,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From earlier bragget, *bracket, from Middle English *braget, *braket (attested in braket nail), from Old French braguette (“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches, one's fly”), a diminutive of Old French brague (“knickers, britches”), from Old Occitan braga, from Latin brāca (“pants”), from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, from Proto-Germanic *brāks, an early form of Proto-Germanic *brōks (“leggings, breeches, trousers”).
Sample Sentences
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Because they didn’t have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year-olds with the eight-year-olds.
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Some villain who knows nothing about it comes into it for money and so the labours of honest mediums get discounted. The public very naturally brackets them all together. [1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Introduces Some Very Physical Phenomena”, in The Land of Mist, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1926, →OCLC, page 158:]
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Next, since so much social activity is defined by being bracketed out of the world of ongoing events, it becomes possible that outside such bracketed episodes, […] people are — especially beforehand, but also afterwards — to some extent "out of role", and so off their guard. [1992, Tom Burns, Erving Goffman, page 292:]
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SIL got access to academic legitimacy; linguists bracketed the evangelical engine that drives SIL because they got access to data and tools. [2009, Michael Erard, “Holy Grammar, Inc.”, in Search Magazine, July–August 2009]