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riff::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | ostinato |
Examples of riff
riff
A gentle MOR riff, this one, perhaps, but life at the cutting edge is so tiring.
From the guardian.co.uk
I'm not sure how, but let in the people you want and not the riff-raff,'he says.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
It might be a descending riff here or an almost noir-like trickle of notes there.
From the kentucky.com
I mean, we can't have the riff-raff thinking they can nick off the toffs, can we?
From the independent.co.uk
Riff-raff and drunks from surrounding villages are kept away by tight security.
From the economist.com
If it is just the slayer idea, can't you riff on that without calling it Buffy?
From the tunedin.blogs.time.com
On the other hand, Jonze gives us a smart, poignant riff on a very short story.
From the cnn.com
The show is a comic riff on the hokey 1980 roller-disco movie of the same name.
From the signonsandiego.com
This is not a problem only for whingeing journalists and other foreign riff-raff.
From the economist.com
- A Berber living in northern Morocco
- Flick: look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"
- A jazz ostinato; usually provides a background for a solo improvisation
- Play riffs
- In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: "stubborn", compare English: obstinate) is a motif or phrase which is persistently repeated in the same musical voice. An ostinato is always a succession of equal sounds, wherein each note always has the same weight or stress. ...
- Riff is a R&B vocal group from New Jersey, formed while its members were in high school. The ensemble began under the name Playboys in the late 1980s, with a style strongly influenced by doo wop.
- West Side Story is an American musical with a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreography by Jerome Robbins. The musical's plot and story are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- Barney & Friends is an American children's television series aimed at children from ages 1 to 8, created by Sheryl Leach and produced by HIT Entertainment. It premiered on PBS Kids on April 6, 1992. The series features the title character Barney, a purple anthropomorphic tyrannosaurus rex who conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, optimistic attitude...
- The Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) is a generic meta-format for storing data in tagged chunks.
