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Bracket Sense N Wall Resemblance Supports Attested Couple

单词 bracket
音标 ['brækit]
解释 n.托架,支架
红宝书 【英】 n. 托架(wooden or metal angle-shaped support)
【考】 buttress : wall / bracket : shelf(扶壁用来支撑墙壁/ 支架用来支撑书架)
【同】 近形词: racket(球拍)
字源 bracket (n.)
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 (compare 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."
bracket (v.)
1797, of printed matter, "to enclose in brackets," from bracket (n.). Also, "to couple or connect with a brace" (1827), also figurative, "to couple one thing with another" in writing (1807). Artillery rangefinding sense is from 1903, from the noun (1891) in the specialized sense "distance between the ranges of two shells, one under and one over the object." Related: Bracketed; bracketing. In home-building and joinery, bracketed is attested by 1801.
不择手段背单词 n. 托架; 小括号
【例】bracket a word 把一个字置于括号内
【记】brack = brace双臂, et小. 见上图的托架就是有双臂支撑.
【区】racket(n 球拍)
【类】buttress: wall = bracket: shelf扶壁用来支撑墙壁 = 支架用来支撑书架
趣味全助记 【记】brace k=c;音:壁 + rack架子 + et→撑墙壁的架子

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