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Crotchet vs. Minim — What's the Difference?

Crotchet vs. Minim — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Crotchet and Minim

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Crotchet

An odd, whimsical, or stubborn notion.

Minim

In the United States, 1/60 of a fluid dram (0.0616 milliliter).

Crotchet

(Music) See quarter note.

Minim

In Great Britain, 1/20 of a scruple (0.0592 milliliter).

Crotchet

A small hook or hooklike structure.
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Minim

(Music) A half note.

Crotchet

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

Minim

An insignificantly small portion or thing.

Crotchet

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

Minim

A downward vertical stroke in handwriting.

Crotchet

A hook-shaped instrument, especially as used in obstetric surgery.

Minim

(music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

Crotchet

(archaic) A whim or a fancy.

Minim

A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1⁄60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

Crotchet

A forked support; a crotch.

Minim

A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

Crotchet

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

Minim

Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
The minims of existence

Crotchet

(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.

Minim

(zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.

Crotchet

(printing) A square bracket.

Minim

A little man or being; a dwarf.

Crotchet

(obsolete) to play music in measured time

Minim

A small fish; a minnow.

Crotchet

Archaic form of crochet

Minim

A short poetical encomium.

Crotchet

A forked support; a crotch.
The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.

Minim

Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; - applied to animalcula; and the like.

Crotchet

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.

Minim

The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm, equal to one four-hundred-eightieth of a fluid ounce, or 0.06161 milliliter (U. S. measure) or 0.05919 milliliters (British measure).

Crotchet

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

Minim

A small fish; a minnow.

Crotchet

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.

Minim

A little man or being; a dwarf.

Crotchet

A bracket. See Bracket.

Minim

One of an austere order of mendicant hermits or friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.

Crotchet

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

Minim

A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets.

Crotchet

A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.
He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.

Minim

A short poetical encomium.

Crotchet

To play music in measured time.

Minim

Minute.

Crotchet

A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

Minim

A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters

Crotchet

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

Minim

A United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram

Crotchet

A strange attitude or habit

Minim

A musical note having the time value of half a whole note

Crotchet

A small tool or hook-like implement

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