Crotchet vs Rotchet - What's the difference?
crotchet | rotchet |
(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
As nouns the difference between crotchet and rotchet
is that crotchet is (music) a musical note one beat long in 4/4 time while rotchet is a fish, the european red gurnard (trigla pini ).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)