Crotchet

['krɒtʃɪt] or ['krɑtʃɪt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a small tool or hooklike implement.

贝莎整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A forked support; a crotch.

(n.) 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.

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

(n.) 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.

(n.) A bracket. See Bracket.

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

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

(v. i.) To play music in measured time.

錄入:伦纳德

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Whim, freak, quirk, vagary, whimsey, fancy, caprice, maggot, WRINKLE.

整理:普雷斯利

解釋/意思:

n. a hook: a note in music equal to half a minim : a crooked or perverse fancy: a whim or conceit.—adjs. Crotch′eted Crotch′ety having crotchets or peculiarities: whimsical.—n. Crotch′eteer a crotchety person.

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