Bracket and Pattern

bracket

A category falling within certain defined limits.
Either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material.
- synonyms: angle bracket
Either of two punctuation marks () used to enclose textual material.
- synonyms: square bracket
A support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf.
- synonyms: wall bracket

Support with brackets.
- usage: "bracket bookshelves"
Place into brackets.
- usage: "Please bracket this remark"
- synonyms: bracket out
Classify or group. .

(n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
(n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column or the like.
(v.t.) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
(n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
(n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from or fastened to, a wall or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
(n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation or note or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.
(n.) 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.
(v.t.) To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an object).
(n.) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called fork.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Bracket is a term signifying the extent of an underwriter's commitment in a new issue, e. G., major bracket or minor bracket.

pattern

A perceptual structure.
- usage: "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
- synonyms: form, shape
A customary way of operation or behavior.
- usage: "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
- synonyms: practice
A decorative or artistic work.
- usage: "the coach had a design on the doors"
- synonyms: design, figure
Something regarded as a normative example.
- usage: "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
- synonyms: convention, normal, rule, formula
A model considered worthy of imitation.
- usage: "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
Something intended as a guide for making something else.
- usage: "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"
- synonyms: blueprint, design
The path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport.
- usage: "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"
- synonyms: traffic pattern, approach pattern
Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle.
- synonyms: radiation pattern, radiation diagram

Plan or create according to a model or models.
- synonyms: model
Form a pattern.
- usage: "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"

(n.) A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
(n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
(n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
(v.t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
(n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
(n.) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.
(n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
(v.t.) To make or design (anything) by, from or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
(n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
(n.) Something made after a model; a copy.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Pattern is a technical chart formation used to make market predictions by following the price movements of securities.