# bracketing

Pronunciation: US say "BRAK-it-ing" /ˈbɹækɪtɪŋ/; UK

## Noun

1. The act of enclosing text or other content within a pair of brackets.
   - Simple: The act of putting brackets around words, numbers, or other text.
   - _Consistent bracketing of editorial insertions helps readers tell them from the original text._
   - _She used bracketing to mark the words she planned to remove later._
3. A series or group of brackets considered together, especially as decorative or supporting elements on a building.
   - Simple: A group of support pieces, called brackets, used together on a building.
   - _The Victorian house featured ornate bracketing beneath its deep eaves._
   - _Restorers carefully repaired the decorative bracketing that ran along the cornice._
4. A method of showing the internal structure of a string of elements by enclosing its parts in brackets, much as done in mathematics and symbolic logic.
   - Simple: A way of showing how the parts of a sentence fit together by putting brackets around them.
   - _Linguists rely on bracketing to reveal how words combine into larger units._
   - _Her analysis used bracketing to separate the noun phrase from the verb phrase._

## Verb

2. Present participle and gerund of bracket. — present participle and gerund of bracket
   - Simple: Present participle of bracket. Use this -ing form when the action is happening now.
   - _The copy editor is bracketing each of his own insertions for clarity._
   - _Bracketing the disputed passages let the committee review them separately._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/bracketing (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).