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improvisar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cobble noun A rounded stone, roughly fist-sized, traditionally used to pave streets.
  • improvise verb To create or perform something on the spot without preparation, often using whatever is available.
  • wing noun One of the limbs a bird, insect, or aircraft uses to fly.

Senses

improvisar is used for these senses in English:

  • cobble (transitive) To assemble in an improvised way.
  • fly by the seat of one's pants (idiomatic, by extension) To use one's judgment, initiative, and perceptions as events unfold in order to improvise a course of action without a predetermined plan or without the desirable data inputs to decision making.
  • improvise To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, intuition, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan.
  • play by ear (transitive, and, intransitive, idiomatic) To do by guessing, intuition, or trial and error; to react to events as they occur, often with risk of negative outcomes; to improvise.
  • wing (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.

cobble — full definition

  1. noun A rounded stone, roughly fist-sized, traditionally used to pave streets.
  2. verb To put something together quickly or roughly, often from whatever is available.

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