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dominant
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling. 2 predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance. n. 1 (context music English) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dominant \Dom"i*nant\, a. [L. dominans, -antis, p. pr. of dominari: cf. F. dominant. See Dominate .] Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power. The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage" [ant: subordinate ] of genes; producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar [ant: recessive ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In music , the dominant is the fifth scale degree of the diatonic scale , called "dominant" because it is next in importance to the tonic , and a dominant chord is any chord built upon that pitch , using the notes of the same diatonic scale. The dominant ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French dominant (13c.), from Latin dominantem (nominative dominans ), present participle of dominari (see domination ). Music sense is from 1819. Sexual bondage sense by c.1960. The noun is first recorded 1819, earliest in the musical ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a dominant gene (= a gene that has its effect when there is only one copy of it ) ▪ The disease occurs when a child inherits a single dominant gene from a parent with the disease. a dominant personality (= controlling ...
Usage examples of dominant.
Rosemary West, too, was the daughter of a dominant and abusive father, a man whose actions she also idealised.
The other dominant idea of the early years was the notion of monasticism, the idea that full spirituality is best achieved by renouncing the world and all its temptations.
Where the antitrust agenda was concerned, SCAP moved swiftly to clarify its policy of dissolving zaibatsu holding companies and eliminating zaibatsu family members as dominant share holders and officeholders.
The dominant idea, however, at least of the absorbed party, was sectional aggrandizement, looking to absolute control, and theirs is the responsibility for the war that resulted.
But if the relation of liquids to their vapors be that here shadowed forth, if in both cases the molecule asserts itself to be the dominant factor, then the dispersion of the water of our seas and rivers, as invisible aqueous vapor in our atmosphere, does not annul the action of the molecules on solar and terrestrial heat.
Ewell Darden and his palatial residence in Westchester, suitable storehouse for the Argyle Museum treasures - these were simply the dominant pictures.
Second, they claim that the dominant economies themselves had originally developed their fully articulated and independent structures in relative isolation, with only limited interaction with other economies and global networks.
Blenkinthrope had been genuinely fond of his wife, but in the midst of his bereavement one dominant thought obtruded itself.
On the broad plains of Campannlat, phagors became increasingly dominant, relying for meat on the herds of yelk and biyelk, which appeared in growing numbers, and becoming bolder in their attacks on the Sons of Freyr.
At the barrier the Sagoths clambered up the steep side with truly apelike agility, while behind them the haughty queen rose upon her wings with her two frightful dragons close beside her, and settled down upon the largest bowlder of them all in the exact center of that side of the amphitheater which is reserved for the dominant race.
Phemus Circle, and found that little cluster of twenty-three suns and sixty-two habitable planets limned in muddy brown, at the point where the overlapping boundaries of the three dominant clades converged.
The process of diffusion may often be very slow, being dependent on climatal and geographical changes, or on strange accidents, but in the long run the dominant forms will generally succeed in spreading.
Usually Coffa assumed a dominant position among lesser dogs by simply ignoring them.
With a dominant share of the booming office copier market, Xerox was growing fast and was very profitable.
Only this child was different: Daine treated the stallion as if she were a pony herself, a dominant one.