Synonyms of the word

crotchet

• n. (music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
• n. A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook (obsolete except in crochet hook).
• n. (archaic) a whim or a fancy.
• n. A forked support; a crotch.
• n. (military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is…
• n. (military) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly…
• n. (printing) A square bracket.
• v. to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet.
• v. (obsolete) to play music in measured time.

curve

• adj. (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
• n. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
• n. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
• n. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution…
• n. (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
• n. (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional…
• n. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
• n. (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
• n. (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
• v. (transitive) To bend; to crook.
• v. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
• v. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
• v. To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
• v. (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

note

• n. (heading) A symbol or annotation.
• n. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.
• n. (music, heading) A sound.
• n. (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
• n. (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
• n. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
• n. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.
• v. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
• v. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
• v. (transitive) To denote; to designate.
• v. (transitive) To annotate.
• v. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
• v. (transitive) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of…
• n. (uncountable, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary;…
• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period…

oddity

• n. An odd or strange thing or opinion.
• n. A strange person; an oddball.
• n. Strangeness.

queerness

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being queer or odd.
• n. (countable) Something queer; an oddity.
• n. (uncountable) The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to normal sexual identities.

quirk

• n. an idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something…
• n. (architecture) An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part…
• n. (archaic) A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To move with a wry jerk.

quirkiness

• n. (uncountable) The state of being quirky.
• n. (countable) A specific quirky aspect of a person or thing.

strangeness

• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.
• n. (countable) The product or result of being strange.
• n. (physics) one of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles that depends upon the relative number of strange…

tone

• n. (music) A specific pitch.
• n. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
• n. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
• n. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
• n. General character, mood, or trend.
• n. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
• n. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking…
• n. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
• n. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
• n. The shade or quality of a colour.
• n. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
• n. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus.
• n. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy…
• n. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
• v. (transitive) to give a particular tone to.
• v. (transitive) to change the colour of.
• v. (transitive) to make (something) firmer.
• v. (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour.
• v. (transitive) To utter with an affected tone.
• pron. (now dialectal) The one (of two).

unfamiliarity

• n. Lack of familiarity; ignorance or inexperience.