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Intervention vs Improvisation - What's the difference?

intervention | improvisation |

As nouns the difference between intervention and improvisation

is that intervention is intervention (act of intervening) while improvisation is improvisation.

intervention

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.}}
  • (US, legal) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
  • An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.

    • Derived terms

    * divine intervention * interventionism * macrointervention * microintervention

    improvisation

    English

    (wikipedia improvisation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.
  • That which is improvised; an impromptu.
  • Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
  • The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 15 , author=Amy Lawrence , title=Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice.}}