Crotchet Definition

krŏchĭt
noun
A small hook.
Webster's New World
A hooklike part or device.
Webster's New World
An odd, whimsical, or stubborn notion.
American Heritage

Quarter note.

Webster's New World

(music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb

To make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet.

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Other Word Forms of Crotchet

Noun

Singular:
crotchet
Plural:
crotchets

Origin of Crotchet

  • From Old French crochet (‘small hook’), from croc (with diminutive suffix -et), 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).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English crochet hook, quarter note from Old French hook crochet

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Crotchet Sentence Examples

  • By means of six accents, one bar and a crotchet it is possible to note with sufficient precision the indications of tone without which the Annamese words have no sense for the natives.

  • Most players take this piece at crotchet = 120 or more, and at this speed the semiquaver chords are separated by 125 milliseconds.

  • Although the majority of the materials are on the casual end, you will occasionally find small cross body styles in materials with a slightly more dressy or feminine appeal, such as cotton crotchet.

  • It should be a dotted crotchet followed by a quaver tied to a crotchet followed by a quaver tied to a crotchet.

  • The choice of crotchet, dotted crotchet, or minim for indications of tempo, throws the predominant grouping of the basic " pulse.

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Words Starting With

CCRCRO

Words Ending With

TETHET

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Words Starting With C and Ending With T

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