(v. t.) To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously.
(v. t.) To bring about, arrange, or make, on a sudden, or without previous preparation.
(v. t.) To invent, or provide, offhand, or on the spur of the moment; as, he improvised a hammer out of a stone.
(v. i.) To produce or render extemporaneous compositions, especially in verse or in music, without previous preparation; hence, to do anything offhand.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
(3) He could execute in an exemplary fashion pieces of music for the organ in his repertory as well as improvise.
(4) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
(5) But in the Round Room of the Mansion House there must have been at least two thousand others in an improvised Strangers' Gallery.
(6) : Facial Action Coding System: From the video-recordings of faces and their photographic versions obtained after a pause on the video recorder, these authors have improvised a technic based on the visual observation of the anatomical basis of the movement in connection with facial expression and their description through minimal anatomical action units or A.U.
(7) A nondescript Gerard Deulofeu corner just before the half-hour was transformed by an improvised, volleyed flick from Gareth Barry.
(8) The British director demands six months of improvisation and filming; according to Eddie Marsan, Malick makes dialogue up on the spot and then starts his camera rolling, whether the actor's ready or not.
(9) This is how we can help the terrorists, if we attack hospitals, schools, and things like this.” The devastation of Syria will be Obama’s legacy | Natalie Nougayrède Read more Assad also rejected criticism of his forces’ use of barrel bombs, improvised crates of high explosives most often dropped on urban areas from helicopters.
(10) Furthermore, the same process may lead the surgeon to improvise and create a successful alternative.
(11) I write it by working with the actors as they improvise.
(12) This is not something that can be improvised, however.
(13) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
(14) The panopticon-like New Broadcasting House, the enlarged central London HQ that opened last year, was designed without offices for individual executives, though Hall insisted on having one – he occupies a former meeting room – and Yentob has improvised one.
(15) At least United managed to win the game and put some points on the board, thanks to Mata’s inspired improvisation, and in the context of English results in Europe this week that does count as progress.
(16) Brennan told Fox the troops would have to be confident he posed no threat "in terms of not having an IED [improvised explosive device] on his body".
(17) The surgery involves a microsurgical dissection at the site of the common canalicular obstruction followed by anastomosis to the sac or nasal mucosa with silicone tube intubation of the passage using an improvised metallic introducer.
(18) Medical equipment, shields, helmets, improvised armour, gas masks and camping equipment are also being sent.
(19) Cameron announced a series of measures to help stabilise the country and to strengthen the British military effort to hasten the withdrawal: • A doubling of the number of teams, from 10 to 20, dealing with improvised explosive devices.
(20) Loach has spent his career depicting ordinary people, telling working-class stories as truthfully as possible, and he works distinctively – filming each scene in order, often using non-professional actors, encouraging improvisation.
Vamp
Definition:
(v. i.) To advance; to travel.
(n.) The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
(n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.
(v. t.) To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main suppliers were VAMP (78 practices), AAH Meditel (46), and AMC (23).
(2) A study of 32 patients receiving cyclophosphamide (CY) and verapamil (VER) in addition to the drug combination vincristine, adriamycin and methyl prednisolone (VAMP) was made in which the clinical response and growth of clonogenic myeloma cells (MY-CFUc) from bone marrow aspirates were compared.
(3) Chaplin himself wrote about this process: "Sometimes a musician would get pompous with me, and I would cut him short: 'Whatever the melody is, the rest is just a vamp.'
(4) Median duration of aplasia following hyper-VAMP was 13 days with CM-CSF and 29 days without GM-CSF.
(5) The brand’s most famous material is black lace, inspired by Sicilian widow’s weeds, but the Dolce & Gabbana woman is both a mamma and a vamp.
(6) Collection was started 8-10 days after the end of L-VAMP therapy (3 cycles).
(7) RIP November 14, 2015 It was later confirmed that Marie Mosser, a 24-year-old who worked with band The Vamps, had been killed alongside Thomas Ayad.
(8) These studies suggest that intensive chemoradiotherapy (eg., VAMP-TBI), if given relatively soon after diagnosis and before development of progressive disease, improves long-term survival for patients with advanced neuroblastoma.
(9) VAMPs are synaptic vesicle-specific proteins composed of a carboxy-terminal hydrophobic membrane anchor and an approximately 100 amino acid domain oriented towards the cytoplasm.
(10) HDMP produced short responses in 25% of patients with less toxicity than VAMP.
(11) To determine whether GluT4 vesicles are related to synaptic vesicles, rat adipocyte low density microsomes (LDM), which are rich in GluT4 vesicles, were screened for the synaptic vesicle proteins synaptotagmin, synaptophysin, SV2, p29, rab3, and VAMP (synaptobrevin) by immunoblotting.
(12) A total of 110 patients with high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) not previously treated by chemotherapy or by radiotherapy at more than one site of disease underwent a regimen comprising an intensive 6-week initial, induction phase using vincristine, adriamycin, methotrexate, and prednisolone (VAMP) followed by the non-cross-resistant combination cyclophosphamide, etoposide, and vindesine (EEE).
(13) Comparison of these data with our previous study of patients receiving VAMP alone, suggests that the addition of CY to the regimen may increase the tumour cell kill.
(14) A 41-year-old male was diagnosed as acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) in November, 1982 and partial remission was obtained by a combination chemotherapy of LVP, DVP ABOP and VAMP.
(15) The amino-terminal 24-28 amino acid residues which comprise the proline-rich head are only about 50% homologous between the different VAMPs, yet the proline-rich character is maintained.
(16) Vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP) 1 is a 120-amino acid protein which co-purifies with cholinergic synaptic vesicles from the marine ray Torpedo californica.
(17) It is concluded that verapamil may be a useful adjuvant to VAMP chemotherapy and that busulphan may provide an alternative to melphalan in patients whose myeloma cells are melphalan resistant.
(18) Nucleotide sequence analysis of the cDNAs predicts proteins which are 84 and 75% homologous to Torpedo VAMP-1.
(19) This from the suburbs of Bristol, and another trade long steeped in such sharp practice: "Self-employed hairdressers are required for a busy, newly opened and re-vamped Beauty Salon."
(20) Its message in bovine brain encodes a 116 amino acid protein whose sequence reveals it to be the mammalian homolog of Torpedo VAMP-1.