improvise

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You can, as the US Marines put it, improvise, adapt, and overcome [2].

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Quick take

perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of improvise gathered in one view.

verb

perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding"

verb

manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand; "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for improvise.

verb

perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding"

See also: improvize, ad-lib, extemporize, extemporise

verb

manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand; "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks"

Example sentences

You can, as the US Marines put it, improvise, adapt, and overcome [2].

Three people improvise a scene, but only two are interacting at once.

I can't usefully improvise or compose for more than about two hours at a time, or more than four hours in a day.

But I didn't give a damn about any of it until a friend showed me how to improvise over the 12 Bar Blues.

These games were almost always improvised on the spot, where someone would throw out an idea and the others in the group would build upon it.

You must learn to be gracious when this happens and improvise a satisfactory result.

When you play the guitar alone, it's easy to improvise, because you don't need to communicate your intent to the players around you.

No one tried to improvise a solution because it required outside-the-box thinking.

Given that he wrote this in that book:"The greater the need to improvise the more democratic the cooperation [within companies] tends to become.

Kind of like when musicians improvise together or when aspiring writer play those cooperative writing stories.

Because so many of them seem too well organized, hit too many buzzwords and talking points, as if all following the same script but given a little leeway to improvise.

Take p. 7, "To reduce liabilities":"Coins for equity,…"You can't just improvise a private-offering of shares for Bitcoin in the envisioned timeframe.

Doesn't seem like the most obvious use-case for meshnets, wouldn't people be better served getting ham licenses and learning how to improvise antennas in an emergency?

"When you communicate intent, you are letting the other team members operate more independently and improvise as necessary.

But I've wasted 2 years of my life doodling around scales, ear training and music theory focusing on speed, dexterity and memorization, attempting to learn how to improvise like the greats.

The second was that a circuit breaker used for arming the ascent engines on the LM got broken during an EVA and the astronauts had to improvise by using a felt-tip pen to activate it.

As you learn more songs, you might struggle on parts or want to improvise and then you will be more engaged to learn technique or scales, and some people will be happy they can strum a few chords and never worry about more.