square-bracket

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English

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To enclose in square brackets.
    • 1986, Valerie M. Thom, “Scotland – its avifauna and geography”, in Birds in Scotland, London: T & AD Poyser, published 2011, →ISBN, page 15:
      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.
    • 2018, Michael Bath, “Alexander Seton's Suburban Villa: Neostoical Emblems and United Nations”, in Emblems in Scotland: Motifs and Meanings (Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature; 28), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 170:
      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