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