different between motif vs diagram

English

Etymology

From French motif (1848), with the meaning of "main idea or theme". Doublet of motive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo??ti?f/
• Rhymes: -i?f

Noun

motif (plural motifs)

1. A recurring or dominant element; an artistic theme.

   See how the artist repeats the scroll motif throughout the work?

2. (music) A short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.
3. A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern.
4. (dressmaking) A decorative appliqué design or figure, as of lace or velvet, used in trimming.
5. (crystallography) The physical object or objects repeated at each point of a lattice. Usually atoms or molecules.
6. (chess) A basic element of a move in terms of why the piece moves and how it supports the fulfilment of a stipulation.
7. (biochemistry) In a nucleotide or amino-acid sequence, pattern that is widespread and has, or is conjectured to have, a biological significance.

Related terms

• motive
• phosphomotif
• leitmotif
• motify

Translations

French

Etymology

From Late Latin m?tivus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.tif/

Noun

motif m (plural motifs)

1. motive
2. motif
3. pattern, design

Derived terms

• au motif que

Descendants

Further reading

• “motif” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch motief, from Middle Dutch motijf, from Old French motif (Modern French motif), from Late Latin m?tivus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mot?f]
• Hyphenation: mo?tif

Noun

motif (first-person possessive motifku, second-person possessive motifmu, third-person possessive motifnya)

1. motif:
   1. a recurring or dominant element; an artistic theme.

      Synonyms: corak, pola

   2. (music, literature) a short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.
2. motive:
   1. (law) something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “motif” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

English

Alternative forms

• diagramme (archaic)

Etymology

From French diagramme, from Italian diagramma, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?da?.?.??æm/, /?da?.??æm/

Noun

diagram (plural diagrams)

1. A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.

   Electrical diagrams show device interconnections.

2. A graph or chart.
3. (category theory) A functor from an index category to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is J and the codomain is C, then the diagram is said to be "of type J in C".

Synonyms

• (plan or similar to show relationships or similar): schematic

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:diagram

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

diagram (third-person singular simple present diagrams, present participle diagraming or diagramming, simple past and past participle diagramed or diagrammed)

1. (transitive) To represent or indicate something using a diagram.
2. (Britain) To schedule the operations of a locomotive or train according to a diagram.

Related terms

• diagrammatic
• diagrammatically

References

• diagram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• diagram on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• diagram at OneLook Dictionary Search

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?ja?ram]

Noun

diagram m

1. diagram

Declension

Derived terms

• diagram rybí kosti m
• stavový diagram m

Further reading

• diagram in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• diagram in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

diagram n (singular definite diagrammet, plural indefinite diagrammer)

1. diagram

Declension

References

• “diagram” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French diagramme or English diagram, from Latin diagramma, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.a???r?m/
• Hyphenation: di?a?gram
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

diagram n (plural diagrammen, diminutive diagrammetje n)

1. diagram

Derived terms

• staafdiagram
• venndiagram

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin diagramma, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dij??r?m]
• Hyphenation: di?ag?ram
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

diagram (plural diagramok)

1. diagram

Declension

References

Further reading

• diagram in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma)

Noun

diagram n (definite singular diagrammet, indefinite plural diagram or diagrammer, definite plural diagramma or diagrammene)

1. diagram

References

• “diagram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma)

Noun

diagram n (definite singular diagrammet, indefinite plural diagram, definite plural diagramma)

1. diagram

References

• “diagram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dja.?ram/

Noun

diagram m inan

1. diagram

Declension

Swedish

Noun

diagram n

1. a diagram, a graph, a drawing

Declension