Synonym: motive, theme. Similar words: motion, motive, emotion, notify, commotion, motivate, emotional, promotion. Meaning: [məʊ'tɪːf] n. 1. a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors 2. a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music 3. a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work.
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(31) Finally, a central motif of the Derveni commentary was the willingness to give a variety of names to the creator.
(32) Feeling refreshed, she changed into pastel pink shorts and a baggy white sweater with matching pink motif.
(33) The company expects the Motif drag-and-drop, which it substituted for its proprietary GUI, to shorten the learning curve.
(34) The graphical user interface supports either Open Look or Motif applications.
(35) How to please everybody remains a central motif in many women's lives and the source of quite powerful feelings of oppression.
(36) In kent, many vanes were completed with the Kentish horse motif and hunting scenes were popular.
(37) The bedroom is wallpapered, both on walls and ceiling, with a delicate tiny pink flower motif on a white background.
(38) No work is predetermined; every work begins somewhere with a motif and outgrows its organ to become an organism.
(39) This leads in turn to the third and deepest level of the motif, the mythical aspect.
(40) No significant homology could be detected between the human and marsupial proteins outside this motif.
(41) She was wearing a plain white T-shirt with a fish motif in blue and green.
(42) Black and white thick chenille cropped sweater, £293. Black chenille thick sweater with colourful tulip motif, £396.
(43) The S. macroura motif shows 65% identity and 82% similarity with the human gene.
(44) Best guess is that SunSoft will offer reasonably priced Motif upgrades for Solaris 1.
(45) On the contrary, a nude women is rarely anything but a motif.
(46) D Mens t-shirt in white cotton jersey, generously cut and decorated with a primitive fish motif.
(47) UIM/X automatically generates C source code based on Motif, conforming to standard specifications for C so that the code is extremely portable.
(48) Position the point cams to indicate the position of the motif.
(49) It is distinguished by an X-Windows/Motif interface, and its ability to integrate with optical character readers and document processors. Sentencedict.com
(50) Put Magic cams on to the carriage and place the point cams where you wish the motif to go.
(51) This was the dominant motif for schools in the first half of the century.
(52) In the felt and wooden ornaments we find the recurrent motif of the griffin.
(53) Problems may arise with obtaining written instructions for the lace carriage and motif cams.
(54) The design utilises the daisy motif in two variations and also an edging.
(55) Sun insiders reckon the company will price-list Motif almost immediately.
(56) A constant motif is a flashback to a field of wheat, interposed suddenly and incongruously in various scenes.
(57) Sylvia chose a set of china with a floral motif.
(58) Dress in disposable pajama-tops with a motif of repeated fleurs-de4is.
(59) The primacy of the female nude as a motif of modern art, from Courbet to Kruger, is examined.
(60) We have already noticed that a chief motif of the Orphic cosmogonies is their portrayal of the development of new life.
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