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It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.
William Billings

Meaning of "common time" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COMMON TIME

common time play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMMON TIME

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Common time is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMMON TIME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Time signature

The time signature is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each bar and which note value constitutes one beat. In a musical score, the time signature appears at the beginning of the piece, as a time symbol or stacked numerals, such as or 3 4, immediately following the key signature or immediately following the clef symbol if the key signature is empty. A mid-score time signature, usually immediately following a barline, indicates a change of meter. There are various types of time signatures, depending on whether the music follows simple rhythms or involves unusual shifting tempos, including: simple, compound, complex, mixed, additive, fractional, and irrational meters.

Definition of common time in the English dictionary

The definition of common time in the dictionary is a time signature indicating four crotchet beats to the bar; four-four time C.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMMON TIME

common sallow
common salt
common scoter
common seal
common sense
common shelduck
common shrew
common snapping turtle
common snipe
common soldier
common spoonbill
common spotted orchid
common stock
common storksbill
common swallow
common swift
common toad
common weal
common wintergreen
common zebra

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMMON TIME

ahead of time
all the time
at one time
at the same time
big time
from time to time
full time
in good time
in no time
in the fullness of time
in the nick of time
in time
local time
on time
once upon a time
opening time
real time
short time
summer time
the big time
time

Synonyms and antonyms of common time in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «common time» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMMON TIME

Find out the translation of common time to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of common time from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «common time» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

共同的时间
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tiempo común
570 millions of speakers

English

common time
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आम समय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الوقت المشترك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

общее время
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tempo comum
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাধারণ সময়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

temps commun
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Masa bersama
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gemeinsame Zeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

共通の時間
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공통 시간
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wektu umum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thời gian chung
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொதுவான நேரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सामान्य वेळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ortak zaman
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tempo comune
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wspólny czas
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

загальний час
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

timp comun
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κοινή ώρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

algemene tyd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gemensam tid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vanlig tid
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of common time

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMON TIME»

The term «common time» is regularly used and occupies the 58.132 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about common time

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QUOTES WITH «COMMON TIME»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word common time.
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William Billings
It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMMON TIME»

Discover the use of common time in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to common time and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Common Time
Taking his cue from Glenn Gould's "two take" recording process, Chris Pusateri's Common Time deftly scores and splices the linguistic year ... [and] reminds us [that] "to read is to be not informed, but devoted.
Chris Pusateri, 2012
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Common Time: Living the Life of Christ Until It Becomes Our Own
Based on the life of Christ between Baptism and Transfiguration (the traditional scope of Common Time), we gain insight into who we are as the people of God and what we're collectively supposed to do as the church. If Kingdom Tide is about ...
David McDonald, 2010
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Time, Freedom, and The Common Good: An Essay in Public ...
For our common time builds our cohesion with each other, while it roots itself in and encourages the temporalities by means of which our individualities are brought forth. We must turn to explore this theme — for each of us is continuously  ...
Charles M. Sherover, 1989
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Einstein's Relativity and Beyond: New Symmetry Approaches
Thus, we will explore one particularly simpe transformation of t which is called common time. The 4-dimensional theoretical framework with common time can be obtained from taiji relativity by making an additional postulate of common time for ...
Jong-Ping Hsu, 2000
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Theoretical astronomy examined and exposed, by 'Common sense'.
... a collection of different varieties. It is as follows : — " Three .species of time : solar, lunar, sidereal — from the sun, moon, and stars. The varieties resulting — almost innumerable — certainly very curious : common time, true time, mean time , ...
William Carpenter (of Greenwich.), 1864
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Time and Reality in American Philosophy
Common time is the place in which the parallelism of the different worlds is safeguarded and made possible. It is evident that, on this point, the real problem of time is the formation of a common time for the complete apparent world, outside ...
Bertrand P. Helm, 1985
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Improved method for the reed organ: containing complete and ...
EXERCISE IN 3 OR 6 COMMON TIME. \ It will be seen that we count four to a whole note a, holding down the Key and sounding the note. In the second measure ' have two half notes. We play the first while we count one, two; play the second ...
‎1878
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The science of music, comprised in a series of amusing and ...
J G. Ritchie. FIGURED TIME. 23 account, and he or she leads again. The one who first gets rid of the cards in hand wins the game. There are two kinds of Time — Common, and Triple. Common time is an even number, as two, four, six.
J G. Ritchie, 1879
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A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by ...
For it is evident that a Bar of what is generally called Common Time may just as well be made to contain two Minims, eight Quavers, or sixteen Semiquavers, as four Crotchets, though it can never be made to contain more or less than four ...
Sir George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse, 1889
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A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by ...
[A. M.] COMMON TIME. The rhythm of two or four beats in a bar, also called Equal time. According to the method of teaching usually observed in England, common time is divided into two kinds, Simple and Compound, Simple common time ...
Sir George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, 1879

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMMON TIME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term common time is used in the context of the following news items.
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Record flu season prompts shot call
... the same time in 2014, Ms Ley said in a statement on Wednesday. Australia is moving into the most common time of year for catching the flu. «SBS, Jul 15»
2
Fort Sill explains reduced hours at VCC
Colonel Glenn Waters told me that of the nearly 350 people who go in the center on a daily basis, the most common time is between 7:00 a.m. ... «KSWO, Jul 15»
3
Heal Your Heels
Summer is the most common time of the year for your feet to take a beating, exposing dry, cracked heels. If you feel like your heels look like they ... «Good4Utah, Jul 15»
4
MISSING PETS: Did you lose a pet this holiday weekend?
The Fourth of July weekend is a common time for pets and pet owners to be separated. 13 News Reporter Elizabeth Wadas is doing a story ... «WREX-TV, Jul 15»
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5 Biggest Time Wasters In The Field
As a starting point, here are the most common time wasters in field sales. Disorganized/ No Record Keeping. “Today I have the meeting with the ... «Business 2 Community, Jul 15»
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Speaking Volumes | Celebrating the 30th anniversary of 'Back to the …
This novel takes a very common time travel adventure plot (the inventor of a time machine has gone missing and his son must travel though ... «Bradenton Herald, Jul 15»
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When is it OK to boo your own team? A Handy Primer
Finally, the most common time to not boo is when children are around you. It's fair to eyeball it, but if you assume it's a child under the age of 12, ... «Gaslamp Ball, Jul 15»
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The Automatic-Stops marry simple approach to bombastic punk …
I just started playing the common time rock beat and messing around with some different stuff. It's pretty simple.” “We all play pretty simple stuff,” ... «The Daily Times, Jul 15»
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3 Ways to Put the Fun Back Into Your Sex Life -- One May Surprise …
By sitting down together on a regular basis, and mapping out some common time over the coming week or weeks that you will both be ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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Parliament House's one clock to rule them all is in need of some TLC
... time reference to various systems (slaves) thereby enforcing a common time throughout Parliament House," the tender document explains. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»

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