Crotchet vs. Quaver
Crotchetnoun
(music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
Crotchetnoun
(obsolete) A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
Crotchetnoun
(archaic) a whim or a fancy
Crotchetnoun
A forked support; a crotch.
Crotchetnoun
An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
Crotchetnoun
(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.
Crotchetnoun
(printing) A square bracket.
Crotchetverb
(obsolete) to play music in measured time
Crotchetverb
knit by looping
Crotchetnoun
A forked support; a crotch.
Crotchetnoun
A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note.
Crotchetnoun
An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
Crotchetnoun
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.
Crotchetnoun
A bracket. See Bracket.
Crotchetnoun
An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.
Crotchetnoun
A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.
Crotchetverb
To play music in measured time.
Crotchetnoun
a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
Crotchetnoun
a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
Crotchetnoun
a strange attitude or habit
Crotchetnoun
a small tool or hook-like implement
Quavernoun
A trembling shake.
Quavernoun
A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.
Quavernoun
(music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.
Quaververb
To shake in a trembling manner.
Quaververb
(intransitive) To use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing.
Quaververb
(transitive) To utter quaveringly.
Quaververb
To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.
Quaververb
Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument
Quaververb
To utter with quavers.
Quavernoun
A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
Quavernoun
An eighth note. See Eighth.
Quavernoun
a tremulous sound
Quavernoun
a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note
Quaververb
give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
Quaververb
sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
