Term: riff: a jazz ostinato; usually provides a background for a solo improvisation
Candidate hypernym: ostinato: a musical phrase repeated over and over during a composition → 1
Candidate hypernym: pull: a device used for pulling something → 0
Candidate hypernym: inverse function: a function obtained by expressing the dependent variable of one function as the independent variable of another; f and g are inverse functions if f(x)=y and g(y)=x → 0
Candidate hypernym: binocular microscope: a light microscope adapted to the use of both eyes → 0
Candidate hypernym: climbing maidenhair: tropical fern widespread in Old World; naturalized in Jamaica and Florida → 0
Candidate hypernym: twenties: the time of life between 20 and 30 → 0
Candidate hypernym: bird's-foot fern: cliff brake of California and Baja California having purple-brown leafstalks → 0
Candidate hypernym: pliers: a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws → 0
Candidate hypernym: sokoro: a Chadic language spoken in Chad → 0
Candidate hypernym: saxhorn: any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves → 0
Candidate hypernym: elecampane: tall coarse Eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally → 0