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noun
A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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Synonyms: quarter note
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
Definition sources: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract · Princeton WordNet 3.0
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: hook
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Broader terms: curve, curved shape
Narrower terms: uncus
noun
A hook-shaped instrument, especially as used in obstetric surgery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
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noun
A whim or a fancy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
A forked support; a crotch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
A square bracket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: media, printing, publishing
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verb
to play music in measured time
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Archaic form of crochet (“knit by looping”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, archaic
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noun
a small tool or hooklike implement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hook
noun
a strange attitude or habit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unfamiliarity, strangeness
noun
a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: quarter note
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: note, musical note, tone
History
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.
Across languages
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
