Crotchet vs. Quaver

(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

A forked support; a crotch.

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.

(obsolete) to play music in measured time

knit by looping

A forked support; a crotch.

Example: ‘The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.’;

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.

An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

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.

A bracket. See Bracket.

An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.

A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.

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

To play music in measured time.

a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note

a strange attitude or habit

a small tool or hook-like implement

A trembling shake.

A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.

(music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.

To shake in a trembling manner.

(intransitive) To use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing.

(transitive) To utter quaveringly.

To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.

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

To utter with quavers.

Example: ‘We shall hear her quavering them . . . to some sprightly airs of the opera.’;

A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.

An eighth note. See Eighth.

a tremulous sound

a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note

give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency

sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below