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Meanings of motif in anglès
Short musical idea, a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition.
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català
motiu Significant element of an artistic work, often recurring.
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In the visual arts, individual design element, alone or combined to produce a pattern.
Usage of motif in anglès
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Large flower-decked jars stand in niches; the cartouches bear the flower motif.
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Whether core promoters contain a DNA motif recognized by TFIIA remains unknown.
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They were characterized by a similar structure including the C-terminal LPLRF-NH2 motif.
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These two sites are purine rich and share a common sequence motif.
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You can think of a motif as a lens into the markets.
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Sequences flanking PPPPYV motif can be deleted without any effect on budding.
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Several human proteins with such a motif were identified through BLAST search.
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Anton presses home the motif through an evolving series of duplicative metaphors.
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And through it all, weaving in and out, one great underlying motif.
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ERa conserves the phosphorylation motif at Ser216 within the DNA binding domain.
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We see a similar motif in Babylonia, and even earlier around Jerusalem.
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The repetitive region is based on the repetition of the motif PQQPFPQQ.
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The method uses statistical models based on geometrical measurements of the motif.
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The carvers had earned their motif of the woods throughout the building.
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The genre is built around one simple rhythmic motif called the skank.
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A second difference of even greater portent was the motif of gathering.
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Translations for motif
Motif through the time
Motif across language varieties
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common