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Crotchet vs Minim - What's the difference?

crotchet | minim |

In lang=en terms the difference between crotchet and minim

is that crotchet is a musical note one beat long in 4/4 time while minim is a half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

As a verb crotchet

is to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet.

crotchet

English

(wikipedia crotchet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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
    • 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
  • * De Quincey
    • He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.
  • A forked support; a crotch.
  • * Dryden
    • The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (musical note) quarter note (US)

    Derived terms

    * crotchety

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet
  • (obsolete) to play music in measured time
    • (Donne)
    ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Noun

    (m)
  • (punctuation) bracket

    • Derived terms

    *

    minim

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  • A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 ?L or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
  • *
  • A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
  • Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
    • the minims of existence
  • A small fish; a minnow.
  • A little man or being; a dwarf.
    • (Milton)
  • A short poetical encomium.
    • (Spenser)

    See also

    * crotchet * quaver * semibreve English palindromes ----