English Dictionary

crotchet

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkɹɑt͡ʃ.ɪt/

名詞

廃用 歴史的 古語

(music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time. / (obsolete) A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

日本語の意味

音楽：4/4拍子において1拍分の長さの音符（四分音符） / 古語：鋭い曲線、または鉤状の形状を示す

The composer asked the students to clap a steady crotchet pulse before they began the piece.

作曲家は、曲を始める前に生徒たちに安定した四分音符の拍を手拍子で取るように頼んだ。

意味（1）

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

The crotchets and quavers are dancing up and down the stave like little black boys on a fence.

意味（2）

(obsolete) A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

意味（3）

(surgery, now chiefly historical) A hook-shaped instrument, especially as used in obstetric surgery.

Either Doctor Denman or an old Woman would have waited—but since the horrid death-doing Crotchet has been found out, & its use permitted—Oh! many & many a Life has been flung away.

意味（4）

(archaic) A whim or a fancy.

Thou who walkest in a vain shew, looking out with ornamental dilettante sniff and serene supremacy at all Life and all Death; and amblest jauntily; perking up thy poor talk into crotchets, thy poor conduct into fatuous somnambulisms; … dost thou call that liberty!

意味（5）

A forked support; a crotch.

Their little Shed, ſcarce large enough for Two, / Seems, from the Ground increas'd, in Height and Bulk to grow. / A ſtately Temple ſhoots within the Skies, / The Crotchets of their Cot in Columns riſe: …

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

(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.

意味（8）

(printing) A square bracket.

crotchets （ plural ）