different between crotchet vs antic

English

Etymology

From Old French crochet (“small hook”), from croc + -et (diminutive suffix), from Old Norse krókr (“hook”). The musical note was named so because of a small hook on its stem in black notation (in modern notation this hook is on the quaver/eighth note).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??t?.?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??t?.?t/

Noun

crotchet (plural crotchets)

1. (music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
2. (obsolete) A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
3. (archaic) A whim or a fancy.
   • 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Secret Societies (published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine):

     He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.

4. A forked support; a crotch.
5. (military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
6. (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.
7. (printing) A square bracket.

Synonyms

• (musical note): quarter note (US)

Derived terms

• crotchety

Translations

Verb

crotchet (third-person singular simple present crotchets, present participle crotcheting, simple past and past participle crotcheted)

1. (obsolete) to play music in measured time

   • The nimblest crotcheting musician

2. Archaic form of crochet (knit by looping)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French crochet (“small hook”), from croc (with diminutive suffix -et), from Old Norse krókr (“hook”).

Noun

crotchet m (plural crotchets)

1. (Jersey, punctuation) bracket

Derived terms

• crotchet cârré (“square bracket”)

English

Alternative forms

• antick

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n't?k, IPA^(key): /?æn.t?k/
• Rhymes: -ænt?k

Etymology 1

Probably from Italian antico (“ancient”), used to describe ancient wall paintings from classical times, from Latin antiquus (“venerable”). See also grottesco (“grotesque”). Doublet of antique.

Adjective

antic (comparative more antic, superlative most antic)

1. Playful, funny, absurd
2. (architecture, art) Grotesque, incongruous.
3. (archaic) Grotesque, bizarre
4. Obsolete form of antique.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

antic (plural antics)

1. (architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
2. A caricature.
3. (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
   • 2007, Jeph Jacques, Time To Add A Cute Kid To The Cast Questionable Content Number 951

     Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? / Faye: Not really. Nighty night! / Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!

4. A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.

Translations

Verb

antic (third-person singular simple present antics, present participle anticking, simple past and past participle anticked)

1. (intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
2. (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
3. (transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 70:

     She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.

Translations

Etymology 2

From anticipation.

Noun

antic (plural antics)

1. (animation) A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989
• antic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• antic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• actin, actin', actin-, cain't, can it

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan antic, from Latin ant?quus (variant ant?cus).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?n?tik/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /an?tik/
• Rhymes: -ik

Adjective

antic (feminine antiga, masculine plural antics, feminine plural antigues)

1. old

Derived terms

Related terms

• antiguitat

See also

• vell

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ant?quus. Compare the inherited antive (from the Latin feminine ant?qua, which influenced the masculine equivalent form antif; compare also the evolution of Spanish antiguo).

Adjective

antic m (oblique and nominative feminine singular antique)

1. ancient; very old

Descendants

• English: antique (borrowing)
• French: antique

See also

• ancien
• viel

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ant?quus (variant ant?cus).

Adjective

antic

1. ancient; very old
   • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, Lancan folhon bosc e jarric

     Anc no vitz ome tan antic

     I've never seen a man so old

Descendants

• Catalan: antic
• Occitan: antic

See also

• vielh

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French antique, from Latin antiquus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an.tik/, /an?tik/

Adjective

antic m or n (feminine singular antic?, masculine plural antici, feminine and neuter plural antice)

1. ancient

Declension

Noun

antic m (plural antici)

1. ancient

Declension

See also

• vechi
• demodat
• versat
• vetust