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oddity
English
Etymology
odd +? -ity
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??d?ti/
Noun
oddity (plural oddities)
- An odd or strange thing or opinion.
- A strange person; an oddball.
- Strangeness.
Synonyms
- (strange thing): irregularity, outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly
- (strange opinion):
- (strange person): kook, oddball, odd duck, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:strange person
- (strangeness): oddness, rumness, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness
Translations
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crotchet
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)
- (music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
- (obsolete) A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- (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.
- 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Secret Societies (published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine):
- A forked support; a crotch.
- (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 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)
- (obsolete) to play music in measured time
- The nimblest crotcheting musician
- 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)
- (Jersey, punctuation) bracket
Derived terms
- crotchet cârré (“square bracket”)
crotchet From the web:
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- crotchety what does it mean
- what is crotchet in music
- what are crotchets and quavers
- what does crotchet equals 100 mean
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