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mac_improviseMeaning of improvise in English
improvise - verb [ I or T ] - us /ˈɪm.prə.vaɪz/ uk /ˈɪm.prə.vaɪz/ - to invent or make something, such as a speech or a device, at the time when it is needed without already having planned it:
- I hadn't prepared a speech so I suddenly had to improvise.
improvise something from something:
- We improvised a mattress from a pile of blankets.
When actors or musicians improvise, they perform without prepared speech or music, making up the play, music, etc. as they perform it:
- During certain scenes of the play there isn't any script and the actors just improvise (the dialogue).
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases - Inventing, designing and innovation
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Cinema & theater: acting, rehearsing & performing
Playing music
Related word - improviser
(Definition of improvise from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
improvise | Intermediate English - improvise - verb [ I/T ] - us /ˈɪm·prəˌvɑɪz/
- to invent or provide something at the time when it is needed without having already planned it:
[ T ] We improvised a mattress from a pile of blankets.
music
To improvise music or speech is to invent it while you are performing it:
[ I ] Hughes encourages young actors to improvise during rehearsals.
(Definition of improvise from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of improvise - improvise - It is really important not to improvise here.
From Huffington Post - They wouldn't improvise when it came to the microphone.
From Slate Magazine - Unfortunately, the plant operator is being forced to improvise in order to clean up this mess.
From CBS News - Rather than improvise upon odiferous reality, she creates a map built of smells, exactly as she found them.
From The Atlantic - He has been improvising on stage for years and now teaches improvisation to business students and executives.
From CNN - That phase appears to have been improvised that night.
From New York Times - We improvised every scene, and if a producer didn't like what we did, he'd ask us to do it over, and over, and over.
From Huffington Post - That came out of four or five hours of loose back-and-forth and letting them improvise and play around.
From A.V. Club - With the audience waiting in its seats for nearly 30 minutes, the management decided to go ahead with a hastily improvised new program.
From Chicago Tribune
If one were to guess, the actors seem to have improvised around sets of incidents and a general story.
From San Francisco Chronicle - Many of her lines in the final film are improvised.
From Los Angeles Times - During their 10-week "missions," students learn to adapt and improvise.
From NPR - His 30-minute solo performance was rare for his instrument: a circle of sound, tender and fierce, organically improvising a zone we all willingly followed.
From NPR - It's kind of improvised mayhem but it doesn't sound like that because these are folks that have been working for a long time together.
From Plain Dealer - I make my own replacement parts, and a lot of times have to improvise repairs.
From CNN - These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Translations of improvise
in Chinese (Traditional) - 臨時做, 即興做, （演員）即興表演…
in Chinese (Simplified) - 临时做, 即兴做, （演员）即兴表演…
in Spanish - improvisar…
in Portuguese - improvisar…
Browse
improvisation
improvisational
improvisationally
improvisatory
improvise
improvised
improviser
improvising
imprudence
/games/word-scramble
Bonus - Word of the Day - law-abiding - UK /ˈlɔː.əˌbaɪ.dɪŋ/ US /ˈlɑː.əˌbaɪ.dɪŋ/
Someone who is law-abiding obeys the law.
(https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/improvise#google_vignette)
improvise - verb [ I or T ] - us /ˈɪm.prə.vaɪz/ uk /ˈɪm.prə.vaɪz/ - to invent or make something, such as a speech or a device, at the time when it is needed without already having planned it:
- I hadn't prepared a speech so I suddenly had to improvise.
improvise something from something:
- We improvised a mattress from a pile of blankets.
When actors or musicians improvise, they perform without prepared speech or music, making up the play, music, etc. as they perform it:
- During certain scenes of the play there isn't any script and the actors just improvise (the dialogue).
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases - Inventing, designing and innovation
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Cinema & theater: acting, rehearsing & performing
Playing music
Related word - improviser
(Definition of improvise from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
improvise | Intermediate English - improvise - verb [ I/T ] - us /ˈɪm·prəˌvɑɪz/
- to invent or provide something at the time when it is needed without having already planned it:
[ T ] We improvised a mattress from a pile of blankets.
music
To improvise music or speech is to invent it while you are performing it:
[ I ] Hughes encourages young actors to improvise during rehearsals.
(Definition of improvise from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of improvise - improvise - It is really important not to improvise here.
From Huffington Post - They wouldn't improvise when it came to the microphone.
From Slate Magazine - Unfortunately, the plant operator is being forced to improvise in order to clean up this mess.
From CBS News - Rather than improvise upon odiferous reality, she creates a map built of smells, exactly as she found them.
From The Atlantic - He has been improvising on stage for years and now teaches improvisation to business students and executives.
From CNN - That phase appears to have been improvised that night.
From New York Times - We improvised every scene, and if a producer didn't like what we did, he'd ask us to do it over, and over, and over.
From Huffington Post - That came out of four or five hours of loose back-and-forth and letting them improvise and play around.
From A.V. Club - With the audience waiting in its seats for nearly 30 minutes, the management decided to go ahead with a hastily improvised new program.
From Chicago Tribune
If one were to guess, the actors seem to have improvised around sets of incidents and a general story.
From San Francisco Chronicle - Many of her lines in the final film are improvised.
From Los Angeles Times - During their 10-week "missions," students learn to adapt and improvise.
From NPR - His 30-minute solo performance was rare for his instrument: a circle of sound, tender and fierce, organically improvising a zone we all willingly followed.
From NPR - It's kind of improvised mayhem but it doesn't sound like that because these are folks that have been working for a long time together.
From Plain Dealer - I make my own replacement parts, and a lot of times have to improvise repairs.
From CNN - These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Translations of improvise
in Chinese (Traditional) - 臨時做, 即興做, （演員）即興表演…
in Chinese (Simplified) - 临时做, 即兴做, （演员）即兴表演…
in Spanish - improvisar…
in Portuguese - improvisar…
Browse
improvisation
improvisational
improvisationally
improvisatory
improvise
improvised
improviser
improvising
imprudence
/games/word-scramble
Bonus - Word of the Day - law-abiding - UK /ˈlɔː.əˌbaɪ.dɪŋ/ US /ˈlɑː.əˌbaɪ.dɪŋ/
Someone who is law-abiding obeys the law.
(https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/improvise#google_vignette)
