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Definitions: Ad-lib |
Ad-libAdjective1. Said or done without having been planned or written in advance; "he made a few ad-lib remarks". 2. With little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib comments showed poor judgment"; "an extemporaneous piano recital"; "an extemporary lecture"; "an extempore skit"; "offhand excuses"; "trying to sound offhanded and reassuring"; "an off-the-cuff toast"; "a few unrehearsed comments". Noun1. Remark made spontaneously without prior preparation; "his ad-libs got him in trouble with the politicians". Verb1. Perform without preparation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Ad-libSynonyms: extemporaneous (adj), extemporary (adj), extempore (adj), offhand (adj), offhanded (adj), off-the-cuff (adj), spontaneous (adj), unrehearsed (adj), unwritten (adj), extemporise (v), extemporize (v), improvise (v), improvize (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ad-lib |
| English words defined with "ad-lib": extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore ♦ offhanded, off-the-cuff ♦ spontaneous ♦ unrehearsed, unwritten. (references) |
| "Ad-lib" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "Ad-lib" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 63.64% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 27.27% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ad-lib"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 即兴 (impromptu). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | appetitfodring (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite), fodring efter ædelyst (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite, voluntary feed intake), fodring ad libitum (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | improviseren (improvise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | improvisoida (improvise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | improviser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stegreif (impromptu), improvisieren (ad lib, extemporize, improvise, vamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ελεύθερη διατροφή (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite), απεριόριστη διατροφή (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tetszés szerint (ad-libitum, at choice, at will), rögtönzés (extemporization, gag, impromptu, improvisation), közbeiktatott, ex tempore (extemporal, extemporaneous), amennyi csak kell, ad libitum (ad-libitum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | alimentazione libera (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite), alimentazione ad libitum (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite), alimentazione a volont (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite), foraggiamento ad libitum (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | improvisá. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ad-libay alimentação livre (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite). (various references) импровизировать (extemporize, improvise, mock up, ride). (various references) alimentacion a discrecion (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite), alimentación libre (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite), alimentación a voluntad (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite). (various references) ad lib-utfodring (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite), fri utfodring (ad libitum feeding, ad-lib feed, feeding ad libitum, feeding to appetite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Ad-lib" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Af-i, Maj-lis, md-il. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-l" | |
-1 letter: bail, bald, dial, laid. | |
-2 letters: aid, ail, alb, bad, bal, bid, dab, dal, dib, lab, lad, lib, lid. | |
-3 letters: ab, ad, ai, al, ba, bi, id, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-i-l" | |
+1 letter: bailed, bridal, ribald. | |
+2 letters: addible, alibied, audible, audibly, baldies, balding, baldish, baldric, bawdily, beadily, bedrail, bimodal, bipedal, brailed, bridals, cabildo, diabolo, disable, hidable, labroid, piebald, rabidly, ribalds, ridable, tabloid. | |
+3 letters: abseiled, audibles, backslid, baldrick, baldrics, balladic, basidial, beadlike, bedrails, beladied, beladies, bewailed, biasedly, bicaudal, biddable, biddably, bidental, bilander, billhead, billiard, bindable, biocidal, biradial, birdcall, bivalved, blandish, blindage, blinkard, blizzard, brailled, bridally, buddleia, cabildos, calibred, cuboidal, dabbling, deniable, deniably, diablery, diabolic, diabolos, dimmable, dippable, disabled, disables, drivable, dutiable, editable, evadible, findable, forbidal, gimbaled, guidable, handbill, imbalmed, imblazed, jailbird, kilobaud, labiated, labroids, ladybird, lambdoid, librated, mandible, oxidable, piebalds, radiable, railbird, ribaldly, ribaldry, rideable, semibald, slidable, tabloids, voidable, windable. | |
+4 letters: abdicable, abdominal, abidingly, abolished, abuilding, admirable, admirably, adobelike, adverbial, advisable, advisably, auditable, avoidable, avoidably, backfield, backslide, balconied, baldachin, baldricks, balladist, banalized, bandolier, bedlamite, beladying, belauding, bilanders, billboard, billheads, billiards, bipedally, birdcalls, blackbird, bladelike, blindages, blinkards, blizzards, blizzardy, bloviated, boardlike, bobtailed, breadline, broadtail, bromeliad, buddleias, buildable, clipboard, dabblings, decidable, definable, definably, derivable, desirable, desirably, devisable, diablerie, diabolism, diabolist, diabolize, dilatable, disabling, dividable, drabbling, drillable, drinkable, driveable, dubitable, forbidals, garibaldi, gimballed, handbills, hobnailed, idioblast, inaudible, inaudibly, jailbirds, jubilated, kilobauds, ladybirds, liberated, libidinal, lullabied, mandibles, medicable, multiband, obligated, parboiled, railbirds, sabadilla, sailboard, sibilated, subacidly, tailboard, unridable, windblast. | |
+5 letters: admissible, adverbials, ascendible, audibility, backfields, backfilled, backlisted, backslider, backslides, baldachino, baldachins, balkanized, balladists, balladries, banderilla, bandoliers, bedabbling, bedazzling, bedlamites, begladding, billboards, bimodality, biomedical, bipedalism, bipedality, blackbirds, blandished, blandisher, blandishes, blastodisc, blizzardly, blockading, bloodstain, boldfacing, botryoidal, brainchild, brazilwood, breadlines, bridgeable, broadtails, bromeliads, brutalised, brutalized, calibrated, clipboards, creditable, creditably, debilitate, debonairly, deceivable, declinable, defeasible, deliberate, deshabille, desirables, despicable, despicably, diableries, diabolical, diabolisms, diabolists, diabolized, diabolizes, dialyzable, disability, dishabille, dislikable, disposable, disputable, disputably, disyllabic, disyllable, drinkables, durability, dyeability, eradicable, fiddleback, floribunda, formidable, formidably, garibaldis, globalised, globalized, herbicidal, highballed, idioblasts, illaudable, illaudably, imbalanced, includable, indictable, ineducable, labialized, linerboard, lubricated, mailbombed, mandibular, marbleised, marbleized, mislabeled, mislabored, modifiable, oxidizable, panbroiled, paraboloid, predicable, radiolabel, remediable, rhomboidal, ribaldries, sabadillas, sailboards, stabilized, stablished, subaudible, subaudibly, subdialect, sublimated, tailboards, tailorbird, timberland, tribulated, undeniable, undeniably, unfindable, verbalized, vindicable, wattlebird, windblasts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 2D 6C 69 62 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 00101101 01101100 01101001 01100010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d - l i b |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 002D 006C 0069 0062 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357015787568 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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