(v. i.) To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address.
(v. t.) To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) We compared the results obtained in the treatment of bronchospastic conditions in two groups of 20 patients, one treated with an extempore combination of salbutamol (2 mg tablets) and oxatomide (30 mg tablets) and the other with salbutamol (2 mg tablets) alone.
(2) Extemporizing on Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against a civilian population, Spicer explained why the Syrian dictator is more evil than Hitler.
(3) Binary adsorbents synthesized extempore and based on carbon matrices and biospecific ligands are described.
(4) Forty outpatients with skin diseases were treated with an extempore combination of three creams, the respective bases of which were beclomethasone dipropionate, sodium fusidate and ketoconazole.
(5) The possibility of performing an extempore intraoperative histological examination makes it possible to obtain a correct diagnosis of endocrine neoplasm and thus to proceed with surgery which could not be contemplated in adenocarcinomatous forms at an equivalent stage.
(6) Sixty-five patients, 25 with acute bronchopulmonary respiratory tract diseases and 40 with acute exacerbations of chronic respiratory tract infections, were treated by means of intramuscular injection of an extempore combination of 1 g of cefuroxime and 300 mg of acetylcysteine.
(7) Ampicillin-sodium was applied in the form of 5 per cent solution, and ampicillin-trihydrate--in the form of a 5 per cent water suspension prepared extempore prior to their administration.
(8) It was a small insight in some ways – everyone knows Clinton can't stick to a script – but a big lesson if you compare it to the Eastwood debacle of the week before: there is no amount of acting experience, and extemporizing what to say, that can compensate for knowing what people want to hear.
(9) Forty out-patients suffering from a variety of skin diseases were treated over a period of 7 to 14 days (mean 9.6 days) with twice-daily applications of an extempore combination of sodium fusidate, clobetasone butyrate and ketoconazole creams.
(10) The spontaneous proliferative activity in cells obtained extempore varied widely.
(11) Forty-one patients with skin diseases of various origins were treated with an extempore combination of three creams containing clobetasone butyrate, sodium fusidate and ketoconazole.
(12) The preparation was proposed as a new extemporal pharmaceutical form of levomycetin for intravenous administration.
(13) Forty patients with bronchospasm of various origins were treated with an extempore combination of a bronchodilator, salbutamol, and an antihistamine agent, oxatomide.
(14) Forty patients suffering from asthmatic conditions, often accompanied by emphysema, were treated either with an extempore combination of salbutamol syrup plus 30-mg oxatomide tablets or with 30-mg oxatomide tablets alone for purposes of comparison.
(15) At every school he visited, Gove peppered everyone within earshot with these questions and more, as well as pitching in with an extempore history lesson at Orchard Gardens with a group of 10-year-olds.
(16) Besides which, even if the cartoonist was intending to speak from a script rather than extempore, there could obviously be no guarantee that he would stick to a censored script.
Speak
Definition:
(v. i.) To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
(v. i.) To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
(v. i.) To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.
(v. i.) To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
(v. i.) To give sound; to sound.
(v. i.) To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.
(v. t.) To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.
(v. t.) To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.
(v. t.) To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.
(v. t.) To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin.
(v. t.) To address; to accost; to speak to.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(2) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(3) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(4) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(5) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(6) Speaking to a handpicked audience of community representatives, the prime minister said he had not allowed the EU to get its way.
(7) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(8) The distribution of cells at the stage of DNA synthesis and mitosis in all the parietal peritoneum speaks of the absence of special proliferation zones.
(9) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
(10) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(11) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(12) The ability to demonstrate selective augmentation of the functional matrix-associated receptor population, and our recent results showing that gonadotropes are indeed the responsive cells (Singh P, Muldoon TG, unpublished observations) speak to the specificity and relevance of these findings.
(13) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
(14) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
(15) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
(16) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(17) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
(18) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(19) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.