ad-libbed (verb)

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• ad-lib — verb (ad libs, ad libbing, ad libbed) speak or perform in public without preparing in advance. adverb & adjective 1》 spoken without advance preparation. 2》 Music with free rhythm and expression. 3》 as much and as often as desired. noun an ad lib… …   English new terms dictionary

• ad-lib — verb ad libbed, ad lilbbing (I, T) to say something in a speech, a performance of a play etc without preparing or planning it: She forgot her lines and had to ad lib the rest of the scene. ad lib noun (C) ad lib / . ./ adjective, adverb …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• ad-lib — ad libs, ad libbing, ad libbed also ad lib 1) VERB If you ad lib something in a play or a speech, you say something which has not been planned or written beforehand. [V n] He began comically ad libbing a script... [V way prep] Audiences giggled… …   English dictionary

• Ad libitum — Ad lib redirects here. For other uses, see Ad lib (disambiguation). Ad libitum is Latin for at one s pleasure ; it is often shortened to ad lib (as an adjective or adverb) or ad lib (as a verb or noun). The roughly synonymous phrase a bene… …   Wikipedia

• ad-lib — I UK [ˌæd ˈlɪb] / US verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms ad lib : present tense I/you/we/they ad lib he/she/it ad libs present participle ad libbing past tense ad libbed past participle ad libbed to say something in a speech, play etc… …   English dictionary

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• ad-lib — I. verb (ad libbed; ad libbing) Etymology: ad lib Date: 1919 transitive verb to deliver spontaneously intransitive verb to improvise especially lines or a speech • ad lib noun II. adject …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• ad-lib — /æd ˈlɪb/ (say ad lib) adjective 1. in an improvised fashion: an ad lib performance. –noun 2. such an improvised performance or utterance. –verb (ad libbed, ad libbing) –verb (t) 3. to improvise and deliver extemporaneously. –verb (i) 4. to… …  

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