different between reinforcement vs bracket

English

Alternative forms

• re-enforcement, reenforcement, reënforcement

Etymology

From reinforce +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i??n?f??(?)sm?nt/
• Homophone: reenforcement

Noun

reinforcement (countable and uncountable, plural reinforcements)

1. (uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
2. (countable) A thing that reinforces.
3. (in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
4. (uncountable, behavioral psychology) The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.

Derived terms

• negative reinforcement
• positive reinforcement
• primary reinforcement

Translations

See also

• punishment
• operant conditioning
• classical conditioning

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?æk?t/
• Rhymes: -æk?t

Etymology 1

From earlier bragget, probably from Middle French braguette, from Old French braguette (“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches”), from Old Occitan braga (from Latin br?ca (“pants”), of Transalpine Gaulish and perhaps Germanic origin) + -ette.

Noun

bracket (plural brackets)

2. A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
3. (engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
4. (nautical) A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
5. (military) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
6. Any of the characters "(", ")", "[", "]", "{", "}", "<" and ">", used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.
   1. (Britain) "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
   2. (US) "[" and "]" specifically - as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
7. (sports) A printed diagram of games in a tournament.
8. (sports) A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
9. One of several ranges of numbers.

   tax bracket, age bracket

10. (algebra) A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
11. (military) In artillery, the endangered region between two shell impacts (one long and one short). The next shell fired is likely to hit accurately.
12. (typography) The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
13. (land surveying, 19th century) a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench.

Synonyms

• ("(" and ")"): parentheses, parens
• (land surveying): benchmark

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:bracket

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Punctuation

Verb

bracket (third-person singular simple present brackets, present participle bracketing, simple past and past participle bracketed)

1. To support by means of mechanical brackets.
2. To enclose in typographical brackets.
3. To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.

   I tried to hit the bullseye by first bracketing it with two shots and then splitting the difference with my third, but I missed.

4. To place in the same category.

   Because the didn't have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year olds with the eight-year olds.
5. To mark distinctly for special treatment.
6. To set aside, discount, ignore.
   • 2009, Michael Erard, “Holy Grammar, Inc.”, in Search Magazine, July–August 2009:

     SIL got access to academic legitimacy; linguists bracketed the evangelical engine that drives SIL because they got access to data and tools.

7. (photography) To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
8. (philosophy, phenomenology) In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

bracket (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of bragget (“drink made with ale and honey”)

Anagrams

• betrack

Spanish

Etymology

From English bracket.

Noun

bracket m (plural brackets)

1. (in the plural, orthodontics) braces (a device worn on the teeth to straighten them)

   Synonyms: aparatos, aparatos dentales, frenos, frenillo

2. bracket (diagram representing the sequence of games in a sports tournament)