Glacis vs Crotchet - What's the difference?
glacis | crotchet |
(military) A gentle incline in front of a fortification.
(military) The angled armour plate on the front of a tank; glacis plate.
(postal service) A device for sorting mail which slides parcels across a sloped surface.
(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
In context|military|lang=en terms the difference between glacis and crotchet
is that glacis is (military) the angled armour plate on the front of a tank; glacis plate while crotchet is (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.As nouns the difference between glacis and crotchet
is that glacis is (military) a gentle incline in front of a fortification while crotchet is (music) a musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.As a verb crotchet is
to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet.glacis
English
Noun
(wikipedia glacis) (en-noun)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)