Extemporize vs Extemporized - What's the difference?
extemporize | extemporized |
To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
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To do, create, improvise, adapt, or devise in an impromptu or spontaneous manner.
* 1860 , , The Marble Faun , ch. 10:
* 1879 , , Evolution, Old & New , ch. 5:
* 1906 , , The Dynasts , Part Second, Act Third:
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(extemporize)
To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
* 1881 , , Mary Marston , ch. 35:
* 2009 March 5, , "
To do, create, improvise, adapt, or devise in an impromptu or spontaneous manner.
* 1860 , , The Marble Faun , ch. 10:
* 1879 , , Evolution, Old & New , ch. 5:
* 1906 , , The Dynasts , Part Second, Act Third:
* 2003 Aug. 25, Emily Eakin, "
As verbs the difference between extemporize and extemporized
is that extemporize is to do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise while extemporized is (extemporize).extemporize
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Alternative forms
* extemporise (mostly Commonwealth)Verb
(extemporiz)- "Will you please tell me whose music you have been playing?" . . .
- "It's nobody's, miss."
- "Do you mean you have been extemporizing all this time?"
The (very) scripted president," New York Times (retrieved 8 Nov 2011):
- But while some of his predecessors liked to extemporize , Obama prefers the message to be just so.
- As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes.
- The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.
- The wine runs into pitchers, washing-basins, shards, chamber- vessels, and other extemporized receptacles.
How King Shaped The Dream," New York Times (retrieved 8 Nov 2011):
- His most famous words — "I have a dream" — were extemporized .
Synonyms
* (intransitive) improvise, think on one's feet * (transitive) devise, improviseSee also
* play it by ear * off the cuff * off the top of one's headextemporized
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Verb
(head)extemporize
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Alternative forms
* extemporise (mostly Commonwealth)Verb
(extemporiz)- "Will you please tell me whose music you have been playing?" . . .
- "It's nobody's, miss."
- "Do you mean you have been extemporizing all this time?"
The (very) scripted president," New York Times (retrieved 8 Nov 2011):
- But while some of his predecessors liked to extemporize , Obama prefers the message to be just so.
- As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes.
- The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.
- The wine runs into pitchers, washing-basins, shards, chamber- vessels, and other extemporized receptacles.
How King Shaped The Dream," New York Times (retrieved 8 Nov 2011):
- His most famous words — "I have a dream" — were extemporized .