Square-bracket
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Square-bracket is a verb meaning (transitive) To enclose in square brackets.
Meaning
(transitive) To enclose in square brackets.
Example Sentences
I have square-bracketed the ‘t’ of ‘this’ because, as Loxley and his co-authors note, the additional letter is sanctioned by the Sibbald transcript of Drummond's notes, ‘Modern editors,’ they write, ‘amend “this” to “his”’, following a later printed text of the ‘Conversations’.⁷¹
Scotland's geographical location (Map 1), projecting northwest from the main land-mass of Europe, and its wide variety of habitats are the principal factors responsible for the diversity of the 449 species (excluding those square-bracketed – see Chapter 11) currently on the Scottish list.
Word Forms
- square-brackets
- square-bracketing
- square-bracketed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include square, parenthesize, cube, quadrate, quadrify, roster.
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