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In music, a crotchet is a time note, with a stem, having one quarter the value of a semi-breve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver.
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A demiquaver is a musical note of half the length of the quaver, a semiquaver.
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The polka is a lively Bohemian folk dance in 2-4 measure, with the third quaver accented.
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The polonaise is a Polish national dance of slow movement in three-quarter time beginning always on the beat with a quaver followed by a crotchet, and closing on the beat after a strong accent on the second beat, made up of a march or promenade. The name is also applied to the music used for the dance, which was especially elaborated by Chopin.
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In music, a quaver is a note and measure of time equal to half a crotchet or the eighth of a semi-breve.
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A semiquaver is a musical note of half the duration of the quaver.
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In music a trill is a shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale.
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Cheesy is slang for unpleasant, unsavoury, squalid, disreputable.
Cheesy is slang for banal, over-simple, cliched.
Cheesy (shortened from cheesy quaver) is London Cockney rhyming slang for a favour.
Cheesy is painting and decorating slang for paint or varnish which is dry, but soft.
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Cheesy quaver is London Cockney rhyming slang for a favour.
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Quaver tub was 17th century British slang for a Quaker meeting house.
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