Hocket vs Socket - What's the difference?
hocket | socket |
hiccup
* 1977 , Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
(music) In medieval music, hocket is the rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords. A single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.
* 1977 , Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
(mechanics) An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket ).
(anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
(computing) A two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
As nouns the difference between hocket and socket
is that hocket is hiccup while socket is (mechanics) an opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (eg a light bulb socket ).As a verb socket is
to place or fit in a socket.hocket
English
(Hocket)Noun
(en noun)- All of these tend to produce something of a hiccough effect we know as hocket and which Reese suggests has a long history dating back to primitive instruments.
- Hocket is a contrapuntal technique described by the early fourteenth-century Walter Odington as "A truncation … made over the tenor … in such a way that one voice is always silent while the other sings."