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| | contemporize | (คันเทม'พะไรซ) vi., vt. ทำให้เกิดขึ้นพร้อมกัน, บังเกิดขึ้นพร้อมกัน | | extemporize | (อิคซฺเทม'พะไรซ) vi., vt. ว่ากลอนสด, แต่งเพลงขึ้นสด ๆ , รีบจัดทำขึ้นโดยทันทีทันควัน., See also: extemporiz s ation n. extemporiz s er n. | | temporize | (เทม'พะไรซ) vi. หน่วงเหนี่ยว, เล่นกลอนสด, ดำเนินนโยบายชั่วคราว, รับมือชั่วคราว, ประนีประนอม, See also: temporisation n. temporiszation n. temporiser n. temporiszer n., Syn. filibuster, stall |
| | | ประวิงเวลา | [prawing wēlā] (v, exp) EN: delay ; put off ; stall ; temporize FR: retarder |
| | | | temporize | (v) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time, Syn. temporise, Example: The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote | | temporizer | (n) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time, Syn. temporiser | | improvise | (v) perform without preparation, Syn. improvize, extemporise, ad-lib, extemporize, Example: he extemporized a speech at the wedding | | improvise | (v) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand, Syn. extemporize, Example: after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks | | synchronize | (v) happen at the same time, Syn. contemporize, synchronise, contemporise | | synchronize | (v) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur, Syn. contemporize, synchronise, contemporise, Example: synchronize biblical events |
| | contemporize | v. i. to happen at the same time.
Syn. -- co-occur. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | | contemporize | v. t. to arrange or represent events so that they co-occur.
Syn. -- synchronize. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | | Extemporize | v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Extemporized p. pr. & vb. n. Extemporizing ] To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Extemporize | v. t. To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc. [ 1913 Webster ] Themistocles . . . was of all men the best able to extemporize the right thing to be done. Jowett (Thucyd. ). [ 1913 Webster ] Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech Lord Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Extemporizer | n. One who extemporizes. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Temporize | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Temporized p. pr. & vb. n. Temporizing ] [ F. temporiser. See Temporal of time. ] 1. To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties. [ 1913 Webster ] They might their grievance inwardly complain,
But outwardly they needs must temporize. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To delay; to procrastinate. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To comply; to agree. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Temporizer | n. One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer. [ 1913 Webster ] A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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