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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

bracket

French translation:

console ou support

Added to glossary by GILLES MEUNIER
Mar 18, 2002 07:19
22 yrs ago
English term

bracket

Non-PRO English to French Art/Literary
can "bracket " be only translated as "parantheses" in french ????In that case for the sentence that I have found in a religious text , "it may also be suspended or placed in a bracket at the side of the altar...",how can I translate brackets here ?
Proposed translations (French)
4 +3 console ou support
4 saillie
4 Sorry

Proposed translations

+3
2 mins
Selected

console ou support

non ce n'est pas parenthèse
Peer comment(s):

agree DPolice : how can anything be placed IN a bracket?
8 mins
agree Geneviève von Levetzow
18 mins
agree Anne Galant
24 mins
agree Rado Varbanov
34 mins
disagree CGagnon : How can an idea be placed on a "support"? To put something into parenthesis or brackets means forget about it...
1 day 24 mins
it doesn't apply to an idea?????
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "merci , priya."
2 mins

saillie

Oxford Super Lex, architecture
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1 day 30 mins

Sorry

Il se peut que "support" soit la traduction. Faute de contexte, j'ai fort bien pu me... mettre le doigt... au mauvais endroit.
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