A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work.

A dominant, usually recurring, idea or element.

an important and usually repeating idea or theme in a work of art; a feature in a decoration or design such as a flower motif in wallpaper

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an obvious pattern of events, characters, or themes.

the systematic repetition of a theme, object or technique

A short, repeating melody, which is usually made up of only a few notes.

A consistent or recurrent conceptual element, usually a figure or design. In an architectural or decorative pattern, a motif is employed as the central element in a work, or it is repeated either consistently or as a theme with variations.

An element that serves as a theme, which is developed further and recurs throughout the work. This element can be an event, color, situation, object, setting, or character type. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, for example, motifs include sleep/sleeplessness, the weather, and blood.

A symbol in its aspect as a verbal unit in a work of literary art.

A fundamental unit of composition, consisting of at least two notes which build up into longer themes and passages.

A recurrent image in a literary work or a myth, often suggestive of its theme.

Any recurring element, such as an image, theme, type of incident or even a colour in an artistic work. These often ancient story elements appear across genres and across artistic media.

an element in a composition, a principal repeated element in design.

an easily recognized single design, sometimes repeated, such as a flower or a star

n. a frequently recurrent character, incident, or concept in literature.

an element which recurs in a literary work, or across literary works. [Contributor: Dr. Ismail S. Talib, National University of Singapore.

The theme or dominant recurring visual element in an artistic composition.

A distinctive feature or theme in a composition.

A recurring, prominent element in a work of art.

a sequence of DNA bases (typically three or four) that is repeated in multiple copies in a microsatellite or STR. The term is also used for a combination of several mutations associated with a particular haplogroup, especially for mitochondrial DNA.

A recurring element, subject, or theme in works of art.

one unit of a design that is usually repeated.

a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors

a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music

a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme"

a detail within the story that repeats itself throughout the work

a mark or a shape, or an aggregate of such, which seems, within a picture, to form a discrete whole - a visual 'unit' or 'element' - but only among and taken together with other such units or elements

an idea, a theme that is repeated or carried through an individual work as when John Steinbeck's narrator constantly compares Lenny to an animal such as horse or bear throughout the novel Of Mice and Men

a particular shape which recurs in numerous gridletters

a prominent thematic element in a work of art or literature

a recurring idea, concept or theme

a short melodic figure used repeatedly which may be used to construct a theme

a short musical idea repeated through out a song

a short musical idea that is recognizable

a short musical idea, usually a subdivision of a theme or a phrase characterized by its rhythm, melody or harmony

a short statement or word that describes a general topic in a literary work

a small piece of crochet work which, when attached to many other pieces of the same design, results in a larger crocheted item

a unit that is repeated in a module

a well known positive cis-regulatory element in vertebrates

a word or image that is repeated throughout a novel that helps to highlight or unify a central idea

A designed unit or pattern that is repeated often enough in a total composition to make it a significant or dominant feature. Motif is similar to theme or melody in a musical composition.

a brief melodic idea

Recurring element, such as an emotion.

An underlying theme around which a story or work of art is polarized. myth An improvable story, almost always including miraculous events, that has no specific reference point or time in history. Na-Dene or Athapaskan A language phylum that may have been a living language during the Ice Age. However, the Na-Dene did not arrive in North America from Siberia until after the Ice Age. Famous ethnies of the Na-Dene language phylum include the Navajo, Apache, Haida and Tlingit. All California Athapaskans owned territories in the northwest portion of the state including the Hupan, Mattole, Wailakian, and Tolowan speaking ethnies. non-linear presentation Stories or literatures that follow no particular chronological order.

A visual element that dominates and is repeated to unify a work or art.

a repeated idea in literature

a unit repeated to create visual rhythm

an element that stays the same within a tradition.

a short melodic or rhythmic figure that repeats as a unifying factor

A recurrent or dominant theme in a work of visual or literary art.

a distinct, often repeated idea or feature within a two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or time-based art work

Also referred to as a figure; the shortest possible musical idea sometimes consisting of only two notes.

Synonymous with theme, although most often used to refer to shorter and less-developed thematic pieces.

Element of structure or pattern that recurs in many contexts; specifically, a small structural domain that can be recognized in a variety of proteins.

a design that is the predominant theme or a distinctive repeated pattern, design or shape in a work of art.

A short musical idea, or melodic theme that runs through a piece.

A group of notes that has a recognisable thematic character

Any discrete element of a design or composition, often referring to those that can be easily separated from the whole for the purposes of copying or study.

A simple theme (often a phrase or an image) that is repeated throughout a narrative to give it a deeper sense of unity and to underscore its basic idea.

One or many distinctive and recurring elements, forms, shapes, or figures that make up a design. Details...

(Also known as Motiv or Leitmotiv. theme, character type, image, Metaphor, or other verbal element that recurs throughout a single work of literature or occurs in a number of different works over a period of time. For example, the various manifestations of the color white in Herman Melville's Moby Dick is a "specific" motif, while the trials of star-crossed lovers is a "conventional" motif from the literature of all periods.

An element in a film that is repeated in a significant way.

A recurring element, such as an image, theme, or type of incident.

A decorative theme, element or component.

A theme, character, device, reference or verbal pattern which recurs in works of literature. See Also: THEME

a repeated design in architecture or decoration

an element of narrative -- theme, character, setting, plot device -- that commonly reoccurs in literature. The "wrongly suspected man" and the "crime in a locked room" are plot motifs of mystery fiction.

a recurring image, sound, line, action or other element that makes a symbolic, allegorical, metaphoric or thematic point in a movie.

A repeated design. Also, a design representative of a time period, category, or style, as in "a Victorian motif," "a nautical motif," or "a southwestern motif."

a single decoration or image, such as a flower, a shell, or a circle, that is repeated in a design

A repetitive figure or design. From one simple element, a complex design can be spawned.

a distinctive and recurring theme in any musical work

topos or element—a type of incident, device, or formula—which recurs frequently in a work.

A dominant theme, idea, or pattern in a work of art. Motifs are often repeated.

A technique, object, or thematic idea that is repeated throughout the film.

A recurring image, object, idea, situation, feature, or phrase that helps unify a piece of writing. Motif can be also be used to refer to a situation common across many works, such as the "heroic quest" story or the "rags-to-riches" tale.

is a theme, character type, image, metaphor, or other verbal element that recurs throughout a single work of literature or occurs in a number of different works over a period of time. Example: Some recurring motifs in Macbeth are violence, hallucinations and prophecy.

A decorative theme, component or element.

A repeated concept which is inherent in a person, place or object. It can be a visual, sound, or linguistic idea which reappears in the context of the story or film narrative where symbolic reference or meaning is attached.

The duplicated design of vertical and horizontal repeats in a wallpaper pattern. Motif refers to the recurring subject matter.

A repeated decorative figure or design.

A brief musical idea.

The subject of a painting, or an element of design within a work of art.

A unit repeated over and over in a pattern. The repeated motif often creates a sense of rhythm.

A recurring thematic element in a work of art or a single or repeated design or color.

A motif is a recurring subject, theme, idea that is developed throughout an artistic work.

A distinctive and recurring form, shape or figure.

the design element, image or drawing used on a quilt block or for an applique. An example is a quilt using a "heart motif" or other theme image.

A distinctive and recurring gesture used to provide a theme or unifying idea.

Distinctive feature or element of design or ornament; theme.

In music, a motif is a perceivable or salient recurring fragment or succession of notes that may be used to construct the entirety or parts of complete melodies and themes. A motif is distinguished from a figure in that a motif is foreground while a figure is background: "A figure resembles a moulding in architecture: it is 'open at both ends', so as to be endlessly repeatable. In hearing a phrase as a figure, rather than a motif, we are at the same time placing it in the background, even if it is...strong and melodious."

In art, a motif is a repeated idea, pattern, image, or theme. Paisley designs are referred to as motifs. Many designs in mosques in Islam culture are motifs, especially those of flowers.

A graphical user interface (GUI) specified by the Open Software Foundation (now the Open Group) and built on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's X-Windows. See GUI and X-Windows.

This is one of the choices of look-and-feel under the X Window system. In order to have one's software certified as Motif compliant, one must pay a fee to the Open Software Foundation (OSF).

An environment using a graphical user interface, which runs under UNIX.

A graphical user interface for the UNIX operating system, based on X Windows.

A popular programming toolkit used in many older X programs.

The graphical user interface for OSF, incorporating the X Window System. Also called OSF/Motif.

A windowing environment for the X Window System.

standard graphical user interface developed by the Open Software Foundation (OSF)

An Open Software Foundation (OSF) trademarked name for a type of graphical user interface.

Motif is a product of the Open Systems Software Foundation (OSF). It is based on IBM's Common User Access (CUA) guidelines as were both Microsoft's Windows and OS/2 and defines a style and look-and-feel for developing graphical users interfaces to run on X-Windows platforms.

A XWindow toolkit used mostly OSF/SYSV flavor unix workstations.

Motif (or capitalized MOTIF) is a graphical widget toolkit for building graphical user interfaces under the X Window System on Unix and other POSIX-compliant systems. It emerged in the 1980s as UNIX workstations were on the rise, as a competitor to the Open Look GUI.

In proteins, a structural unit exhibiting a particular three-dimensional architecture that is found in a variety of proteins and usually is associated with a particular function. ( Figure 3-9)

A conserved element of a protein sequence alignment that usually correlates with a particular function. Motifs are generated from a local multiple protein sequence alignment corresponding to a region whose function or structure is known. It is sufficient that it is conserved, and is hence likely to be predictive of any subsequent occurrence of such a structural/functional region in any other novel protein sequence.

In proteins, a unit exhibiting a particular three-dimensional architecture that is found in a variety of proteins and usually is associated with a particular function. Many DNA-binding proteins contain one of a small number of DNA-binding motifs including the helix-loop-helix, homeodomain, leucine zipper, and zinc finger.

A small portion of a protein (typically less than 20 amino acids) that is homologous to regions in other proteins that perform a similar function.

In DirectMusic, a type of pattern played explicitly by an application to mark an event.

A meaningful pattern of nucleotides or amino acids that is shared by two or more molecules.

a great starter pattern, but I've also included a couple of easy samplers that you might enjoy

an evolving interlace pattern that dominates a work such as the positive and negative alliteration patterns in Beowulf

a pattern of nucleotides or amino acids that appears repeatedly in a group of related DNA or protein sequences

a sequence of amino acids that defines a substructure in a protein that can be connected to function or to structural stability

a sequence pattern that occurs repeatedly in a group of related protein or DNA sequences

a short pattern of notes

a short, well-conserved nucleotide or amino acid sequence that represents a minimal functional domain

A short conserved region in a protein sequence. Motifs are frequently highly conserved parts of domains.

a short melodic or rhythmic pattern

A consecutive string of amino acids in a protein sequence whose general character is repeated, or conserved, in all sequences in a multiple alignment at a particular position. Motifs are of interest because they may correspond to structural or functional elements within the sequences they characterize.

Sequence motifs are short conserved regions of polypeptides. Sets of sequence motifs need not necessarily represent homologues.

Unit of repetition in a visual pattern

A nucleic acid or protein sequence that is associated with a function.

A DNA-sequence pattern within a gene that, because of its similarity to sequences in other known genes, suggests a possible function of the gene, its protein product, or both.

Used to describe the design, perhaps recurrent, on glass.

ornate designs available to print on invitations.

a single design for decoration (for example, a leaf)

A single embroidered design.

The dominant feature of a design.