motif
motif
Definition
mo·tif (mō tēf′)
motif
Synonyms
motif
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- recur: No less than nine recurring motifs can be listed.
- stylise: Her designs are both inspired by and taken directly from archive representations of the stylized motifs from the 18th and 19th century Moghul Empire.
- embroider: Great care is taken with each little garment, many of which are beautifully enhanced with hand embroidered motifs.
- conserve: A series of C -terminal deletions of Rx were made at conserved motifs in the ARC domain.
- carve: The carved motif immediately above the double doors echoes some of the internal details.
- bind: This probable zinc binding motif contains four cysteines that may chelate zinc.
Preposition: in
- fingerprint: Saving all motifs in a fingerprint After compiling a fingerprint, it may be desirable to save each of the motifs within it.
- sequence: A small motif in a promoter sequence may be all that is needed to dramatically alter the expression of host genes.
Adjective modifier
- floral: A very pretty white cotton pillow case, with a pretty floral motif to one end, dating to circa 1952.
- decorative: On some of my work there are simple impressed decorative motifs.
- repeating: Vocally ' Alexandria ' is something of a ballad, with soft repeating flute motif supplying the backdrop.
- recurrent: In many of the images, scaffolding, hoardings, bridges, railings and junctions are recurrent motifs.
- geometric: Here, a much older stylistic tradition of geometric motifs becomes distributed across the landscape in a new pattern.
- mythic: A single mythical idea can be expressed in many different ways, and can be interwoven with other mythic motifs.
Noun used with modifier
- folklore: There is a generous use of the Nigerian Igbo folklore motif and unpretending protest poems, all of which make this a wealthy collection.
- peptide: A link is provided to the SYFPEITHI database of MHC ligands and peptide motifs for more detailed information about anchor residues and binding motifs.
- dragon: The T-shirt has white trimmings on the arms and on the round neck collar and a dragon motif on the front.
- leaf: The leaf motif was the connecting theme throughout Arts & Crafts jewelry.
- sequence: Eponine models consist of a set of DNA weight matrices recognizing specific sequence motifs.
- revenge: The revenge motif appears to start when Thun and his girlfriend Jane think they have run over a young woman in their car.
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