Crotchet vs Notion - What's the difference?
crotchet | notion | Related terms |
(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
Mental]] apprehension of whatever may be known, [[think, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
* (Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
* (George Cheyne) (1671-1743)
* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
* (Alexander Hamilton) (ca.1756-1804)
A sentiment; an opinion.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* (John Henry Newman) (1801-1890)
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
, passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke
(label) Sense; mind. Shakespeare.
(label) An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.
Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, such as a button or zipper.
(label) Inclination; intention; disposition.
Crotchet is a related term of notion.
As nouns the difference between crotchet and notion
is that crotchet is (music) a musical note one beat long in 4/4 time while notion is mental]] apprehension of whatever may be known, [[think|thought, or imagined; idea, concept.As a verb crotchet
is to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet.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
*notion
Noun
(en noun)- What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles.
- Few agree in their notions about these words.
- That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which is in the mind, is called the "idea" of hunger, cold, etc.
- Notion , again, signifies either the act of apprehending, signalizing, that is, the remarking or taking note of, the various notes, marks, or characters of an object which its qualities afford, or the result of that act.
- The extravagant notion they entertain of themselves.
- A perverse will easily collects together a system of notions to justify itself in its obliquity.
George Goodchild
