What's the difference between berth and bracket?

Berth


Definition:

  • (n.) Convenient sea room.
  • (n.) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
  • (n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.
  • (n.) An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.
  • (n.) A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.
  • (v. t.) To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.
  • (v. t.) To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dzeko he has failed to hold down a starting berth since his £27m move in January 2011.
  • (2) Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, Jonny Evans, Tyler Blackett, Paddy McNair and Daley Blind – all of whom featured against America – along with Marcos Rojo, who is also resting after the Copa América, are in a fight for the two centre-back berths.
  • (3) Barring some disaster, an MP can expect to occupy such a berth for their entire career.
  • (4) After being sent off in United’s 2-1 quarter-final defeat by Arsenal in the competition on 9 March, Di María struggled to regain a starting berth as Van Gaal discovered his strongest XI.
  • (5) When they were safely berthed in different ministries, bankers bonuses was meant to be the issue on which the pair would have their showdown.
  • (6) Wigan, also chasing promotion and currently lying in a play-off berth, twice took the lead but they were pegged back by Leicester, firstly by Andy King before half-time and then by Hammond in the game's closing stages.
  • (7) If you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, you can't believe you came within a 10-point fourth quarter rally by the San Diego Chargers of stealing a playoff berth.
  • (8) Azpilicueta can then move to the right, leaving Branislav Ivanovic to fight it out for one of the berths in central defence.
  • (9) Of particular interest was how Kolarov, a left-back by trade, beat Vincent Kompany to a centre-back berth, the captain having to settle for a replacement role.
  • (10) However, the temporary fixation of head and neck region to the irradiation berth induces in many patients anxiety state and reduces this way the compliance.
  • (11) Arsène Wenger is convinced the 19-year-old will eventually graduate more permanently into a central midfield berth at the Emirates.
  • (12) In this case some of the players need to work a bit more to be in the first 11.” Vydra is competing against Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo for the main attacking berth.
  • (13) It featured Papiss Cissé stepping off the bench to score twice, Jack Colback looking England-class in the home midfield and Daryl Janmaat and Paul Dummett shining in the full-back berths.
  • (14) His turn of heel took him deep along the right before he squared to the 20-year-old Adnan Januzaj, who had taken Depay’s No.10 berth.
  • (15) Sorry Pa, I was a hopelessly inadequate left-back in my day, but I don't think I was quite slapstick enough to earn a starting berth in this Aston Vi ... what?
  • (16) THE TAMPA ABY ECONOMIC MIRACLE CONTINUES TO YIELD PLAYOFF BERTHS - they earn the fifth and final American League wild card spot with a 5-2 victory on the road over the Texas Rangers .
  • (17) 12.50am BST Predictions Okay, so before the series started I predicted Boston in 6, so that means I'm pretty much obligated to predict that Boston will clinch a World Series berth tonight.
  • (18) The Portuguese filled in at left-back and Bertrand pushed up into the unfamiliar midfield berth.
  • (19) The Da Silva brothers took up unusual berths on either wing, and it was Fábio who opened the scoring.
  • (20) He was widely regarded as having the right experience, deft touch and nous to navigate the shoals and shifting currents of continental politics that would buffet the British ship of state as it left its European berth.

Bracket


Definition:

  • (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.
  • (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.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
  • (n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
  • (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.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
  • (2) In 1:1 saturated complexes with the octamers [d(GGATATCC)]2 and [d(GGTTAACC)]2, [N-MeCys3,N-MeCys7]TANDEM binds to each octamer as a bis-intercalator bracketing the TpA step.
  • (3) Simply lengthening the working age bracket is a potential disaster, unless the inequalities at the heart of the policy are addressed in a detailed and sensible way and we achieve full employment.
  • (4) When either predictability or bond strength was considered independently, several bracket systems, coupled with a particular etch time, had either high predictability or high bond strength.
  • (5) The plaque situation around the brackets and along the gingival margins and the gingival condition were assessed according to the criteria of the plaque and gingival index systems by a dental hygienist at each monthly visit during a test period of 6 months.
  • (6) When pseudorabies virus (PrV) strains are grown in chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF), variants ("translocation" mutants) arise in which there is a duplication of the leftmost sequences of the genome and their translocation in inverted orientation next to the internal inverted repeat bracketing the S component.
  • (7) In 2010 there were 2,525 City workers with in the €1m-plus pay bracket with average pay of €2.3m and with a much higher ratio, 611% of variable pay to fixed salary.
  • (8) The results showed that moment-to-force values at the bracket level for translation of a tooth decreased with shorter root length and increased with lower alveolar bone height.
  • (9) The bracket junction is compared with the vertebrate gap junction in terms of both structure and possible roles in facilitating the permeation of the cell by small molecules.
  • (10) Thirty-seven patients entered the trial, and a total of 407 brackets were placed.
  • (11) The purpose of this in vitro study was to determine the tensile bond strengths (TBS) of several orthodontic bonding systems and orthodontic brackets to enamel surfaces exposed to different etching procedures.
  • (12) A pulsed Nd:YAG laser was used to etch the enamel surfaces of teeth in vivo prior to the bonding of orthodontic brackets with composite resin.
  • (13) 6) The strongest bond strength between bracket and etched enamel was obtained with the direct-bonding adhesive containing 2SEM under all conditions.
  • (14) The frequencies of 80 HLA antigen phenotypes in 82 centenarians and 20 nonagenarians in Okinawa, Japan, were compared with those in other healthy adults in various age-brackets.
  • (15) Only three brackets were lost during the experiment.
  • (16) The tensile bond strength of bracket bases coated with metal plasma were examined.
  • (17) They certainly aren't anywhere near the middle, as only 14% of earners hit the 40% bracket.
  • (18) The surface features of incipient caries lesions around bonded orthodontic brackets were assessed longitudinally.
  • (19) For the point of no-net-flux method, animals were perfused with 4 concentrations of DA or DOPAC, bracketing the extracellular concentrations.
  • (20) Inherent defects seen in the morphology of polycrystalline ceramic brackets severely limit their fracture strength.