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archetype
(ärk(i),tIp) |
an original that has been imitated.
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mofit
|mōˈtēf| Our mother insisted on decorating the bathroom in a rubber ducky MOTIF. It was embarrassing. |
• a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition : the nautical motif of his latest novel.
• Music a short succession of notes producing a single impression; a brief melodic or rhythmic formula out of which longer passages are developed : the motif in the second violin is submerged by the first violin's countermelody. • an ornament of lace, braid, etc., sewn separately on a garment. • Biochemistry a distinctive sequence on a protein or DNA, having a three-dimensional structure that allows binding interactions to occur. mother |
