What does improvise mean?

Definitions for improvise
ˈɪm prəˌvaɪzim·pro·vise

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. improvise, improvize, ad-lib, extemporize, extemporiseverb

    perform without preparation

    "he extemporized a speech at the wedding"

  2. improvise, extemporizeverb

    manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand

    "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks"

GCIDE

  1. Improviseverb

    To bring about, arrange, do, or make, immediately or on short notice, without previous preparation and with no known precedent as a guide.

Wiktionary

  1. improviseverb

    To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, instinct, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan.

Wikipedia

  1. improvise

    Improvisation is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of improvisation can apply to many different faculties, across all artistic, scientific, physical, cognitive, academic, and non-academic disciplines; see Applied improvisation. Improvisation also exists outside the arts. Improvisation in engineering is to solve a problem with the tools and materials immediately at hand. Improvised weapons are often used by guerrillas, insurgents and criminals.

ChatGPT

  1. improvise

    To improvise means to create, develop, or perform something spontaneously or without prior preparation or planning. It often involves creativity and quick-thinking to adapt or respond to unexpected or unpredictable situations. This term is commonly used in reference to music, comedy, drama, or other forms of performance, but can also apply to a variety of other contexts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Improviseverb

    to compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously

  2. Improviseverb

    to bring about, arrange, or make, on a sudden, or without previous preparation

  3. Improviseverb

    to invent, or provide, offhand, or on the spur of the moment; as, he improvised a hammer out of a stone

  4. Improviseverb

    to produce or render extemporaneous compositions, especially in verse or in music, without previous preparation; hence, to do anything offhand

  5. Etymology: [F. improviser, it. improvvisare, fr. improvviso unprovided, sudden, extempore, L. improvisus; pref. im- not + provisus foreseen, provided. See Proviso.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of improvise in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of improvise in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of improvise in a Sentence

  1. Tom Vize:

    There were some pretty tight turns, we had some difficulty in the simulator, the computer couldn’t do them that tight, so we had to improvise, and it turned out great.

  2. Martin Mull:

    Fred and I could improvise together. We could go off script, he was a genius.

  3. Wayne Riley:

    You make it up, you improvise, you get creative in the times of disaster and epidemic. there's a lot of things that keep me up at night.

  4. Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath:

    Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.

  5. Ry Cooder:

    You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

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