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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(music) A sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails..
But the young gentleman […] walked down the dark side of the street in peals of laughter, making, ever and anon, little breathless remarks to himself, which his colleague could not hear, but which seemed to have the effect of setting him off again into new hemi-demi-semiquavers and roars of laughter […]
Use hemidemisemiquaver when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hemidemisemiquaver means (music) A sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails..
Common synonyms include sixty-fourth note.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But the young gentleman […] walked down the dark side of the street in peals of laughter, making, ever and anon, little breathless remarks to himself, which his colleague could not hear, but which seemed to have the effect of setting him off again into new hemi-demi-semiquavers and roars of laughter […]
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