What's the difference between crotchet and hooked?

Crotchet


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I used to colour in crotchets with my tongue out" – he mimes a pose of schoolboyish concentration – "but a few years ago I finally sped up."
  • (2) 8.03pm BST The plucky strings are basically Mel and Sue made into quavers and crotchets.
  • (3) Six share third place: three classical music specialists, Crotchet , MDT and Presto Classical .

Hooked


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hook
  • (a.) Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.
  • (a.) Provided with a hook or hooks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Natural tubulin polymerization leads to the formation of hooks on microtubular structures.
  • (2) Off The Hook has facilities of up to £30,000 from the bank, a signatory to the Project Merlin agreement.
  • (3) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.
  • (4) Attention is given to the poor design of a disposable cellulose sponge that results in frequent hooking of sutures during microsurgical procedures.
  • (5) I had told Chris that I would need an electric hook-up and told him about my predicament.
  • (6) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
  • (7) It’s the young Brazilian’s last heavy touch of the evening: he’s hooked for Sterling.
  • (8) But whenever Garcia throws a left hook Matthysse really looks like he has no idea it's coming.
  • (9) Within the enamel department, workers who handled conveyer hooks used to suspend range tops as they passed through the oven were at greatest risk (rate ratio (RR) = 12.44, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 2.90-53.35).
  • (10) As committee member Tom Watson observed once the protester was arrested and normal service was resumed: "Mr Murdoch, your wife has a very good left hook."
  • (11) Rhinonastes n. gen. is proposed for species possessing a dextroventral genital pore, a bilobed testis, a ventral C-shaped ovary lying between the 2 testicular lobes, and a disc-shaped haptor armed with a ventral anchor-bar complex and 14 hooks.
  • (12) 3.48pm GMT Security Once your phone is hooked up to the company email via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) secure network that BlackBerry supplies to businesses, you can use the BlackBerry Balance feature, which separates personal and work functions.
  • (13) Last year, at the suggestion of Selfridges, Hook installed and supplied a raw milk vending machine at the flagship store on Oxford Street – a novel way to sell direct to customers, as the law requires.
  • (14) Once established, an excision of the hook is usually necessary to resolve the discomfort.
  • (15) This species can easily be separated from other Trichocephaloidis by the structure of bifid rostellum and the length of Hooks (70-77 mu).
  • (16) Hook protein and flagellin, which occupy virtually identical helical lattices, did not resemble each other strongly but showed some limited similarities near their termini.
  • (17) She thought it was going out but it landed in - she hooked it back and Sharapova netted an easy forehand!
  • (18) In a joint report , seven anti-tobacco organisations said PMI is trying to recruit a new generation of youngsters, many of whom risk becoming hooked on tobacco for life.
  • (19) In these mutants, hooks and filaments are occasionally assembled onto these incomplete basal bodies.
  • (20) Canelo throws a huge right hook, but it only connects with the ropes as Mayweather dances away.