different between crochet vs minim

English

Alternative forms

• crotchet (archaic)

Etymology

From French crochet, from Middle French crochet, from Old French crochet, crokét (“curved instrument, hook”), diminutive of Old French croc (“hook”), from Old Frankish *kr?k (“hook”) or from Old Norse krókr (“hook, bend, bight”), both from Proto-Germanic *kr?kaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“tracery, basket, twist”). Cognate with Middle English cr?c (“crook, hook”), Middle Dutch croec, cr?c (“curl”). Compare crotchet. More at crook, crooked.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /k?o???e?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

crochet (plural crochets)

1. Needlework made by looping thread with a hooked needle.
2. A certain crest of enamel on the molar teeth of some rhinoceros.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

crochet (third-person singular simple present crochets, present participle crocheting, simple past and past participle crocheted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make (a piece of) needlework using a hooked needle; to make interlocking loops of thread.

Translations

French

Etymology

From croc +? -et with palatalization.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.??/

Noun

crochet m (plural crochets)

1. hook (rod bent into a curved shape)
2. (typography) square bracket
3. fang (of snake)
4. crochet
5. (boxing) hook
6. (soccer, rugby) sidestep
7. detour

Derived terms

• au crochet de
• crocheter

Descendants

• ? English: crochet
• ? Portuguese: colchete, crochet
• ? Spanish: corchete
• ? Turkish: kro?e

Further reading

• “crochet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Noun

crochet m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of crachet

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• croché, crochê

Etymology

Borrowed from French crochet.

Noun

crochet m (plural crochets)

1. (sewing) crochet (needlework made by looping thread)

Romanian

Etymology

From French croquet.

Noun

crochet n (uncountable)

1. croquet

Declension

Spanish

Noun

crochet m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of croché

English

Etymology

French minime

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.n?m/

Noun

minim (plural minims)

1. (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
2. 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.
3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

5. (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     These as a line thir^[sic] long dimension drew,
     Streaking the ground with sinuous trace;
     not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde
     Wondrous in length and corpulence […]

7. A small fish; a minnow.
8. A short poetical encomium.

Translations

See also

• crotchet
• quaver
• semibreve

Anagrams

• minmi

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?ni?m/
• Hyphenation: mi?nim

Adjective

minim (comparative minimer, superlative am minimsten)

1. (dated outside Switzerland) minimal

Declension

Synonyms

• minimal

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English minimum, French minime, German Minimum, Italian minimo, Russian ???????? (mínimum), Spanish mínimo. Regarded as a shortened form of minime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?nim/

Adverb

minim

1. least, lowest, minimum

   Antonym: maxim

Derived terms

• minimo (“minimum”)
• minima nombro (“quorum”)
• adminime (“at least, at the least”)

See also

• plu
• min

Ladin

Adjective

minim m (feminine singular minima, masculine plural minims, feminine plural minimes)

1. least
2. minimum

Romanian

Etymology

From French minime

Noun

minim f (plural minimi)

1. minimum

Declension