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The punctuation that whispers what the sentence is too polite to say out loud.
means A pair of marks—[ ], ( ), { }, or < >—used to enclose extra material in writing, or a support fixed to a wall, or a defined range or group that contains things together.
from From the French braguette, the codpiece on a pair of breeches, which itself comes from braie, 'breeches'—so the architectural bracket may have been named for its resemblance to that jutting support. The word later traveled from carpentry into mathematics and printing, where the enclosing marks resemble the way a bracket props and steadies; the meaning 'category' or 'range' grew from things being grouped within those embracing arms.
- square vs round
- Brackets edit quotes; parentheses just mutter asides
- tournament fame
- March Madness made it a verb for chaos
- ancient roots
- Named after the architectural braces holding up shelves
- code lifeblood
- Curly braces define scope in nearly every language
- nesting rule
- Every open one demands its closing twin
march madness ncaa tournament — 64-team college basketball tournament since 1985 where millions fill out prediction brackets
world cup knockout stage — fifa tournament bracket determining champion from 2014 onward with 16+ teams
wimbledon tennis draw — 128-player single-elimination bracket at grass court championship since 1877