noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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How to please everybody remains a central motif in many women's lives and the source of quite powerful feelings of oppression.
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Finally, a central motif of the Derveni commentary was the willingness to give a variety of names to the creator.
decorative
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The use of these various processes may have provided the vehicles for the transmission of decorative motifs , by copying.
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In addition to poems or maxims and decorative motifs , needleworkers frequently incorporated information about their parents and siblings.
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Private citizens were also quick to adopt the more decorative motifs of imperial monuments.
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This was based on classification of the proportions of the bodies of the vessels and the decorative motifs employed.
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Sometimes decorative motifs are seen, as distinct from engraved geometric signs around the rim or marginal notches.
single
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The animal is knitted as a single motif just as it appears on the graph.
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The design can also be used as a single motif , as shown in the V-neck.
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Change to the single motif card and lock.
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Mrs Oliver's specific enquiry was whether she could knit single motifs on her Zippy DeLuxe.
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You can use either the border version, the single motifs or a combination of both.
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This way also eliminates the need for the single motif cams.
■ NOUN
octamer
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Oct-11 can bind to an octamer motif sequence specifically.
■ VERB
contain
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In terms of style it's like a short Bach piece containing lots of idiomatic motifs and pedal tone ideas.
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It may represent a calcium-sensitive form of the enzyme as it contains one canonical EF-hand motif .
use
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He can use stock motifs and patterns and superfluous work can be retained to cater for future demand.
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The design can also be used as a single motif , as shown in the V-neck.
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Motifs Composers have sometimes used a recurring motif or melodic phrase to establish the atmosphere of a piece.
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Certainly, the Turkoman nomads have used the gul motif as a tribal emblem, or standard, for centuries.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an action movie with a revenge motif
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She was wearing a plain white T-shirt with a fish motif in blue and green.
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Sylvia chose a set of china with a floral motif .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Between these two mosaics, however, there are few obvious similarities of motif .
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In this case we find a classic call-refusal motif .
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Such an interpretation is probably possible, but two of the major motifs of Walden argue against it.
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The second level, that of poetic or dream symbolism, is inherent in all folk-tales, traditions and motifs of regeneration.
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The use of these various processes may have provided the vehicles for the transmission of decorative motifs, by copying.
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Tolkien however used the play for both more and less than motifs.
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Who, what, when, why, and how, the reportorial motif ?