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Image:Quarter_notes_and_rest.svg|thumb|right|A quarter note with stem facing up, a quarter note with stem facing down, and a quarter rest.
Etymology
From Old French crochet (�small hook�), from croc (with diminutive suffix -et), from Old Norse krókr (�hook�). The musical note was named so because of a small hook on its stem in black notation (in modern notation this hook is on the quaver/eighth note).
Noun
en-noun
- A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook.
- needlework made using such a hooked needle
- music A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
- archaic a whim or a fancy
Synonyms
(musical note): quarter note (US)
Translations
(musical note)
Danish: fjerdedelsnode c
French: noire f
German: Viertelnote f
Icelandic: fjórðapartsnóta f, fjórðipartur m
mid
Italian: semiminima f
Portuguese: semÃnima f
Slovene: �etrtinka [
Spanish: negra f
Derived terms
crotchety
Verb
en-verb
- To make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle
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