double time

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1. double time - Noun

2. double time - Verb

3. double time - Adverb

Meaning

at a faster speed

a doubled wage (for working overtime)

a fast marching pace (180 steps/min) or slow jog

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double-time

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On the way back we were constantly under heavy shell fire and I had to double time them to get them through safely. There was nothing to be gained by having any more of them wounded or killed. They had surrendered to me, and it was up to me to look after them. And so I did. Alvin York

now let's play the piece again double-quick Source: Internet

And with Haim’s sophomore album, Something to Tell You, just around the corner, she’s been working double-time (, really) to pull the coolest clothes for the sisters’ myriad press appearances, performances, and photo shoots. Source: Internet

In the second basic pattern, the left hand plays a double chop as described in the guitar section while the right hand plays longer notes on beat 2 (or beat 3 if counted at double time) or a syncopated pattern between the double chops. Source: Internet

Miltiades ordered all his hoplite forces to march "double time" back to Athens, so that by the time Darius' troops arrived they saw the same Greek force waiting for them. Source: Internet

But it sets those familiar ideas in an electronic domain — not just programmed drums but clouds of sustained harmony, bursts of twitchy double time and sudden blips and swooshes, deliberately defamiliarizing the lilt of the pop songs. Source: Internet

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