Crotchet vs Craze - What's the difference?
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(music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook (obsolete except in crochet hook).
(archaic) a whim or a fancy
* 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy
* De Quincey
A forked support; a crotch.
* Dryden
(military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
(military) 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.
(printing) A bracket.
to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet
(obsolete) to play music in measured time
(punctuation) bracket
Craziness; insanity.
A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
* Milton
To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
* Tillotson
* Shakespeare
To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
* Keats
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
* Milton
(intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
Crotchet is a related term of craze.
As nouns the difference between crotchet and craze
is that crotchet is (music) a musical note one beat long in 4/4 time while craze is craziness; insanity.As verbs the difference between crotchet and craze
is that crotchet is to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet while craze is to weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.crotchet
English
(wikipedia crotchet)Noun
(en noun)- 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
- He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.
- The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.
Synonyms
* (musical note) quarter note (US)Derived terms
* crotchetyVerb
(en verb)- (Donne)
Noun
(m)Derived terms
*craze
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(craz)- Till length of years, / And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.
- any man that is crazed and out of his wits
- Grief hath crazed my wits.
- She would weep and he would craze .
- God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, / And craze their chariot wheels.