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crotchet    
n. 怪想,奇想,反复无常,小钩

怪想,奇想,反复无常,小钩

crotchet
n 1: a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook [synonym:
{hook}, {crotchet}]
2: a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole
note [synonym: {quarter note}, {crotchet}]
3: a strange attitude or habit [synonym: {oddity}, {queerness},
{quirk}, {quirkiness}, {crotchet}]
4: a small tool or hooklike implement

Crotchet \Crotch"et\ (kr?ch"?t; 224), n. [F. crochet, prop., a
little hook, a dim. from the same source as croc hook. See
{Crook}, and cf. {Crochet}, {Crocket}, {Crosier}.]
1. A forked support; a crotch.
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The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.
--Dryden.
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2. (Mus.) 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.
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3. (Fort.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way,
at a point where a traverse is placed.
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4. (Mil.) 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.
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5. (Print.) A bracket. See {Bracket}.
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6. (Med.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain
cases in the extraction of a fetus. --Dunglison.
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7. A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the
mind; a conceit.
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He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by
crotchets that he could never explain to any
rational man. --De Quincey.
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Crotchet \Crotch"et\, v. i.
To play music in measured time. [Obs.] --Donne.
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Bracket \Brack"et\, n. [Cf. OF. braguette codpiece, F. brayette,
Sp. bragueta, also a projecting mold in architecture; dim.
fr. L. bracae breeches; cf. also, OF. bracon beam, prop,
support; of unknown origin. Cf. {Breeches}.]
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1. (Arch.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental,
projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling
outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to
discharge such an office.
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Note: This is the more general word. See {Brace},
{Cantalever}, {Console}, {Corbel}, {Strut}.
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2. (Engin. & Mech.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually
triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened
to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or
to strengthen angles.
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3. (Naut.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as
a support.
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4. (Mil.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
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5. (Print.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a
reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded
from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify
a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other
purposes; -- called also {crotchet}.
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6. A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a
wall, column, or the like.
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7. (Gunnery) A figure determined by firing a projectile
beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for
ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only
used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the
bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate
elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the
United States navy it is called {fork}.
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{Bracket light}, a gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall,
column, etc.
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96 Moby Thesaurus words for "crotchet":
L, accidental, angle, apex, bee, bend, bifurcation, bight, boutade,
brainstorm, breve, cant, capriccio, caprice, chevron, coin,
conceit, corner, crank, craze, crazy idea, crook, deflection,
demisemiquaver, dogleg, dominant, dominant note, double whole note,
eccentricity, eighth note, elbow, ell, enharmonic, enharmonic note,
fad, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, flat, flimflam, fool notion,
fork, freak, freakish inspiration, furcation, half note,
harebrained idea, hemidemisemiquaver, hook, humor, inflection,
kink, knee, maggot, megrim, minim, musical note, natural, nook,
note, notion, passing fancy, patent note, point, quarter note,
quaver, quirk, quoin, report, responding note, semibreve,
semiquaver, shaped note, sharp, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note,
spiccato, staccato, sustained note, swerve, tercet,
thirty-second note, tone, toy, triplet, twist, vagary, veer,
vertex, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, whole note, zag, zig, zigzag


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