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Extemporizes vs Extemporises - What's the difference?

extemporizes | extemporises |

As verbs the difference between extemporizes and extemporises

is that extemporizes is (extemporize) while extemporises is (extemporise).

extemporizes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (extemporize)

  • extemporize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * extemporise (mostly Commonwealth)

    Verb

    (extemporiz)
  • 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:
  • "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?"
  • * 2009 March 5, , " 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.
  • To do, create, improvise, adapt, or devise in an impromptu or spontaneous manner.
  • * 1860 , , The Marble Faun , ch. 10:
  • As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes.
  • * 1879 , , Evolution, Old & New , ch. 5:
  • The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.
  • * 1906 , , The Dynasts , Part Second, Act Third:
  • The wine runs into pitchers, washing-basins, shards, chamber- vessels, and other extemporized receptacles.
  • * 2003 Aug. 25, Emily Eakin, " 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, improvise

    See also

    * play it by ear * off the cuff * off the top of one's head

    extemporises

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (extemporise)

  • extemporise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * extemporize (mostly US)

    Verb

    (extemporis)
  • To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
  • To do something in a makeshift way.
  • To make or create extempore.
  • (music) To compose extemporaneously or improvise.
  • See also

    * off the cuff * off the top of one's head * play it by ear