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crotchet - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An odd, whimsical, or stubborn notion.
- noun A small hook or hooklike structure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To play or sing in quick rhythm.
- noun In zoology, one of the slightly curved and notched bristles or chætæ common among Oligochæta, and serving probably as locomotor organs.
- noun Same as
crocket . - noun A little hook; a hook.
- noun Specifically In anatomy, the hooked anterior end of the superior occipitotemporal cerebral convolution.
- noun In entomology, a little hook-like organ or process, generally one of a series; specifically, one of the minute horny hooks on the prolegs of many caterpillars.
- noun One of the pair of marks, [], used in writing and printing, now more commonly called
brackets . Seebracket , n., 4. - noun A curved surgical instrument with a sharp hook, used to extract the fetus in the operation of embryotomy.
- noun In music, a note equal in length to half a minim or one fourth of a semibreve; a quarter note. See
note . - noun A piece of wood resembling a fork, used as a support in building.
- noun Milit., a peculiar arrangement of troops, in which they are drawn up in a line nearly perpendicular to the line of battle.
- noun In fortification, an indentation in the glacis of the covered way at a point where a traverse is placed.
- noun A singular opinion, especially one held by a person who has no special competency to form a correct opinion; an unusual and whimsical notion concerning a matter of fact or principle of action; a perverse or odd conceit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To play music in measured time.
- noun A forked support; a crotch.
- noun (Mus.) A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note.
- noun (Fort.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
- noun (Mil.) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
- noun (Print.) A bracket. See
Bracket . - noun (Med.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.
- noun A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
musical note onebeat long in 4/4 time. - noun A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a
hook (obsolete except incrochet hook). - noun archaic a
whim or afancy - verb to make
needlework bylooping thread with ahooked needle - verb obsolete to play music in measured time
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strange attitude or habit
- noun a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
- noun a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- noun a small tool or hooklike implement
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English crochet, hook, quarter note, from Old French, hook; see crochet.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Old French crochet (‘small hook’), from croc (with diminutive suffix -et), from Old Norse krókr (‘hook’). The musical note was named so because of a small hook on its stem in black notation (in modern notation this hook is on the quaver/eighth note).
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Examples
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Here you have just that kind of crotchet that I am going to deal with.
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Hand-made cotton crotchet over piano (traditional Portuguese crotchet)
Archive 2009-02-01 Red 2009
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Hand-made cotton crotchet over piano (traditional Portuguese crotchet)
Joana Vasconcelos Red 2009
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The icing crotchet is breathtaking, quilling is now my favorite, the fabric wedding cake rules the northern hemisphere of cake-dom and I just drank a 64 ounce jug of water so forgive my typos, but Im in a hurry.
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Serge #6: Had he been a bishop he might have set fire to his crotchet.
Making Light: Beating airport chemical detection systems 2010
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Consecutives on successive minim beats are similarly broken by the intervention of a crotchet if it is a harmony note; not otherwise.
Archive 2007-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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I told KC my plan of her teaching me to crotchet baby booties.
ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009
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I can never remember what a crotchet is in US parlance.
gillpolack: Today I find it very hard to focus, so I gillpolack 2009
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Consecutives on successive minim beats are similarly broken by the intervention of a crotchet if it is a harmony note; not otherwise.
R.O. Morris momentarily indulges his inner Vorticist Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Example: Suppose you have a song at 144 BPM and you want to have the equivalent of a quarter note a crotchet for those in the UK of pause somewhere in the middle of the song.
overcoming granular limitations of the stepmania editor 2008
Related Words
synonyms (97)
Words with the same meaning
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- accidental
- angle
- apex
- bee
- bend
- bifurcation
- bight
- boutade
- brainstorm
- breve
- cant
- capriccio
- caprice
- chevron
- coin
- conceit
- corner
- crank
- craze
- crazy idea
- crook
- crotch
- deflection
- demisemiquaver
- dogleg
- dominant
- dominant note
- double whole note
- eccentricity
- eighth note
- elbow
- ell
- enharmonic
- enharmonic note
- fad
- fancy
- fantastic notion
- fantasy
- flat
- flimflam
- fool notion
- fork
- freak
- freakish inspiration
- furcation
- half note
- harebrained idea
- hemidemisemiquaver
- hook
- humor
- inflection
- kink
- knee
- maggot
- megrim
- minim
- musical note
- natural
- nook
- note
- notion
- passing fancy
- patent note
- point
- quarter note
- quaver
- quirk
- quoin
- report
- responding note
- semibreve
- semiquaver
- shaped note
- sharp
- sixteenth note
- sixty-fourth note
- spiccato
- staccato
- sustained note
- swerve
- tercet
- thirty-second note
- tone
- toy
- triplet
- twist
- vagary
- veer
- vertex
- whim
- whim-wham
- whimsy
- whole note
- zag
- zig
- zigzag
sarra commented on the word crotchet
♩
July 2, 2007
slumry commented on the word crotchet
Cute!
July 2, 2007
grant_barrett commented on the word crotchet
This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day.
November 11, 2009