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  • verb Alternative spelling of improvise.

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  • verb perform without preparation

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Examples

  • There is already a computer program that is able to improvize melodies, solos, chord progressions, etc.

    Virtuoso | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2007

  • If the patient is conscious and you need to move or evacuate them from further danger, improvize a cervical collar using a folded towel or newspaper around the neck to minimize neck movement.

    Surviving Australia Sorrel Wilby 2001

  • If the patient is conscious and you need to move or evacuate them from further danger, improvize a cervical collar using a folded towel or newspaper around the neck to minimize neck movement.

    Surviving Australia Sorrel Wilby 2001

  • If the patient is conscious and you need to move or evacuate them from further danger, improvize a cervical collar using a folded towel or newspaper around the neck to minimize neck movement.

    Surviving Australia Sorrel Wilby 2001

  • Mrs. Cary's head still rested against the aching shoulder, and Mrs. Carmichael made a sign to let her improvize a cushion substitute.

    The Native Born or, the Rajah's People 1922

  • It is decidedly preferable to play the works of good masters than to improvize.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • He must know how to modulate from one key into another, how to proceed from one number to another, what key to choose for the hymns sung by the congregation, how to transpose the chant from one key into another, how to combine the organ stops, and (to a certain extent at least) how to improvize and to harmonize at sight.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Improvizators declaim and comedians improvize amusing scenes.

    Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Various 1885

  • He was now ready to improvize, and dashed thumb and finger on the zither, tossing up his face, swarthy-flushed: "There was a steinbock with a beard."

    Vittoria — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • He would certainly have proceeded to improvize impassioned verse, if he had not seen Arthur Rhodes on the pavement.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

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