crotchet

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɹɒtʃ.ɪt/    美 /ˈkɹɑt͡ʃ.ɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
    — The crotchets and quavers are dancing up and down the stave like little black boys on a fence.
  2. A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook obsolete
  3. A hook-shaped instrument, especially as used in obstetric surgery. historical
    — Either Doctor Denman or an old Woman would have waited—but since the horrid death-doing Crotchet has been found out, & its use permitted—Oh! many & many a Life has been flung away.
  4. A whim or a fancy. archaic
    — Thou who walkest in a vain shew, looking out with ornamental dilettante sniff and serene supremacy at all Life and all Death; and amblest jauntily; perking up thy poor talk into crotchets, thy poor conduct into fatuous somnambulisms; [...] dost thou call that "liberty!"
  5. A forked support; a crotch.
    — Their little Shed, ſcarce large enough for Two, / Seems, from the Ground increas'd, in Height and Bulk to grow. / A ſtately Temple ſhoots within the Skies, / The Crotchets of their Cot in Columns riſe: [...]
  6. An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed. historical
  7. 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.
  8. A square bracket.
动词 v.
  1. to play music in measured time obsolete
    — The nimblest crotcheting musician
  2. Archaic form of crochet (“knit by looping”). alt-of,archaic

词形变化

crotchets plural crotchets present,singular,third-person crotcheting participle,present crotcheted participle,past crotcheted past

词汇关系

衍生词
crotcheteer crotchet rest crotchety

词源

词源 1
From Middle English crochet, from Old French crochet (“small hook”), from croc + -et (diminutive suffix), 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). Doublet of crochet, crocket, and croquet.
词源 2
From Middle English crochet, from Old French crochet (“small hook”), from croc + -et (diminutive suffix), 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). Doublet of crochet, crocket, and croquet.
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