I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS 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 other people)
▪ He had a dominant personality and could be a bit of a bully.
a dominant position
▪ The firm achieved a dominant position in the world market.
a major/dominant/key etc player
▪ a firm that is a dominant player on Wall Street
the dominant culture (=the main culture in an area where there are many different cultures)
▪ What are the values of the dominant culture?
the main/central/dominant theme
▪ The main theme of the book is the importance of honesty.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ As the half progressed Leeds became more dominant.
▪ McLuhan claims that the very fact that the medium is discounted makes it all the more dominant and instructive.
▪ Tiller writing the storyline still whisked his audience round the world but the comedy element was more dominant.
▪ The winning coalition of line managers would become prophetic as they were to become more dominant in subsequent meetings.
▪ Like it or not, it is a fact that religion is more dominant and persistent in rural societies than industrial ones.
▪ In the future, the culture factor should be more dominant in the debate.
▪ Submission Submissive gestures are used to try to avoid being attacked by a more dominant animal.
most
▪ The most dominant structural factor in the work is that much of it is cast in the form of canticles.
▪ One, the most dominant, was Maastricht.
▪ A weariness that was as much chronic boredom as physical tiredness seemed the most dominant thing about her.
▪ The social system is based on a hierarchy within which the most dominant individuals take the greatest share of food.
▪ The most dominant age group among the adults was thirty to fifty years.
▪ To any visitors from another planet, it would be the most obvious and most dominant feature of this one.
▪ All the dominants have high frequency here with Calluna the most dominant, and Cladonia species are frequent.
■ NOUN
characteristic
▪ A dominant characteristic of the location-factor school is its focus on the particular features of areas in order to explain their relative fortunes.
▪ The ambivalence with which Ishmael reacts to both society and human brotherhood is his dominant characteristic.
class
▪ In the main, the holders of cultural capital can be regarded as the dominated fraction of the dominant class.
▪ Does the state almost always operate to serve the interests of a dominant class group?
▪ State conjunctural policies respond, similarly, to variations in the strategies and internal organization of the dominant class.
▪ Within modern capitalist societies the monopoly corporations constitute the dominant class fraction.
▪ Senior bureaucrats, it is true, are sometimes members of the dominant class, and sympathise with its aims.
▪ He further demonstrates that what is being tested is often the social conventions of a dominant class, rather than universal logic.
▪ That style of life and demeanour characteristic of Britain's dominant class is a result of its peculiar history.
▪ It is a way in which the dominant class of landowners manipulates a subordinate one.
culture
▪ Or instead there may be a major or dominant culture, with a series of sub-cultures clustering around it.
▪ Their behaviour patterns may be consistent with the dominant culture or may differ from it.
▪ Within our own dominant culture, probably more of the latter group will be men than women, though not exclusively so.
▪ These complexities are totally lost to the dominant culture.
▪ Parent cultures were in turn subordinated to dominant culture - that of mainstream middle class society.
▪ Britain's dominant culture could hardly be more imbued with capitalistic values of property and profit.
factor
▪ There is no one dominant factor that will decide who gets the vote.
▪ Although this is heartening, we must not overlook the dominant factor at work here.
▪ Your faith then may become the dominant factor in any healing that might take place.
▪ Conventional archaeology must now be seen as only one aspect of a balanced study of prehistory, not the dominant factor.
feature
▪ Two dominant features can be highlighted.
▪ Among these the Underworld was the great unknown and was therefore the dominant feature of funerary texts from the Middle Kingdom onwards.
▪ Large-scale, bureaucratic organizations are the dominant features of the political landscape.
▪ Once the church lost its dominant feature, the case for saving the church would evaporate altogether.
▪ William Marshall's powerful round keep is the dominant feature.
▪ To any visitors from another planet, it would be the most obvious and most dominant feature of this one.
figure
▪ In the past, probably because she was four years older, Laura had always seemed the more dominant figure.
▪ He will be a dominant figure at home and abroad, whether he likes it or not.
▪ In all these periods, the dominant figures were the warriors, the knights, the bushi.
▪ The dominant figure in local Labour politics was Stephen McGonagle.
▪ Disorganized though it always was, classical theology centered upon a single, often irresponsible but always dominant figure.
▪ Such wealthier peasants could easily become dominant figures in a village, because surprisingly few communities had a resident lord.
▪ We might think back, for example, to the fourteenth century, and its dominant figure, Petrarch.
force
▪ It seems that symmetry is a useful means of combating a dominant force, such as gravity.
▪ Yet most judges I know are beholden to Power-by that I mean unalterably pledged to the dominant force of the system.
▪ Subcultural influences must not be overlooked, because these are sometimes the dominant force in the country.
▪ Economic success has replaced nationalism and militarism as the dominant force in a region once terrorized by war and revolution.
▪ The tough ones were certainly the dominant force within the prison.
▪ Charles Oakley is well-rested and Patrick Ewing still can be a dominant force in the middle.
▪ Print-on-paper publishing remains the dominant force in the information industry more widely but electronic media have established practical, affordable alternatives.
▪ If the deal is completed, Rouse would immediately become a dominant force in the future development of Las Vegas.
form
▪ For at the heart of that dominant form, the quest-story, there lies very often a denial of fulfilment.
▪ On most campuses, loans have become the dominant form of aid.
▪ Thus the principal task of theories which specifically address modem football hooliganism is to account for these dominant forms of behaviour.
▪ The most obvious one is commercial animal agriculture in its dominant form.
▪ In all but five plays verse is the statistically dominant form and prose has the role of the essential but inferior complement.
▪ It is also its dominant form.
▪ Sports sponsorship is the dominant form of sponsorship, accounting for over two-thirds of all sponsorship activity.
▪ Other forms of privatization have been closer to the dominant forms identified at national level by Mohun.
group
▪ Subordinate groups mobilize to attain new advantages and benefits, while dominant groups mobilize to maintain advantages and benefits.
▪ The dominant groups in modern societies, whose definition of reality is accepted, are not necessarily non-neurotic in Freud's sense.
▪ This social structure is itself unequal, and works to the benefit of this dominant group.
▪ Elite convergence progresses until the subordinate group of elites learns to beat the dominant group through the electoral process.
▪ It will thus reflect the interests of the dominant group in the relations of production.
▪ The Left was torn between the pacifists and the dominant group in the Labour Party which urged support for League sanctions.
▪ The programmes were implemented by governments through existing political channels, thus allowing dominant groups to take advantage of the situation.
▪ When these conflicts reach a crisis point, existing dominant groups always fight to maintain the anachronistic form of social organization.
idea
▪ These dominant ideas become reflected in the concrete features of the social structure, giving them legitimacy and reproducing them.
▪ Dissent has occurred at times among university students in attempts to radicalise dominant ideas.
▪ The account draws strongly on dominant ideas about gender.
ideology
▪ This, then is a micro-reductive version of the dominant ideology thesis.
▪ Clearly dominant ideologies are not equivalent to public opinion since the former are connected with power and may override local concerns.
▪ As the school curriculum is usually determined by the dominant ideology in society at present, a multicultural approach has low status.
▪ Paradoxically, community councils are an insidious form of planning since they stem indirectly from the dominant ideology.
▪ Their purpose is to activate local debate but on terms laid down by the dominant ideology.
▪ Perhaps only by attacking the dominant ideology can it be transformed since action groups may stimulate a rethinking of the situation.
▪ In other words, the dominant ideology carries the day. 4.
▪ These are key ideas in the dominant ideology of patriarchy which have much wider currency and impact than in penology.
influence
▪ This was particularly true of the Independent Labour Party, which was the dominant influence on local political organizations sponsoring Labour candidates.
▪ As a commercial smallholder you will relate all your enterprises to the market, which assumes a dominant influence over your choice.
▪ He swiftly established himself as a dominant influence in New Zealand station architecture and produced many remarkable buildings.
▪ The Mullahs remained a dominant influence until the twentieth century when the Pahlavis attempted to curb them.
▪ Most clients sought their information via directories or personal contacts and a dominant influence in selection was experience of past work.
▪ The dominant influence of culture on the direction of human development implies that descriptions of human abilities can not be context free.
▪ Throughout the first decade of television, the dominant influence was what would now be called stand-up comedy.
issue
▪ But it is easy to admit that one should have been tougher on what is now the dominant issue.
▪ At this point, Lockyer said he does not see a dominant issue emerging for the year ahead.
▪ The dominant issue in most searches is how well the executive search consultant understands and relates to the culture of the client.
▪ Rearmament was the dominant issue, at least within the Conservative Party.
male
▪ Harem A typical mammalian grouping consists of one dominant male and a harem of females.
▪ It is not my experience that dominant males have ever had too much difficulty accepting their social superiority.
▪ Her father is Andy, the only adult dominant male in the Belfast group.
▪ Several dominant males could impregnate all the women and perpetuate the tribe.
▪ This arrangement requires a certain amount of restraint and co-operation on the part of the dominant males, but it clearly has compensatory advantages.
▪ In other groups, the dominant male gets most of the matings, and the other males are allowed an occasional copulation.
▪ If the pack has become too big and unmanageable, the dominant male must spend all his time trying to control it.
▪ There may also be some junior males trying to muscle in on the dominant male's kingdom.
mode
▪ Before long, cheating will have evolved to become the dominant mode of behaviour.
▪ It is bad teaching, but it remains a dominant mode of many professional presentations.
▪ The dominance of the dominant mode must be legitimated.
▪ Under feudalism, Marxists argue, the dominant mode of production was based on the ownership of land.
▪ This occurs when agriculture becomes the dominant mode of production.
▪ What is the dominant mode of knowledge within the discipline?
▪ Pastoral myth was a dominant mode of social understanding through much of the eighteenth century.
partner
▪ Within this pattern, the responsibility for planning the shape of the discourse rests with the dominant partner - the teacher.
party
▪ A dominant party can eventually lose support and become a competitor in a multiparty system.
▪ Like the dominant party in a one-party state, Microsoft Corp. has engendered a certain number of discontents.
player
▪ He has a chance to be a dominant player.
▪ These are the dominant players in the Internet access hierarchy and provide other smaller service providers with backbone connectivity.
▪ But just as he did throughout the season, Cornhuskers quarterback Tommie Frazier emerged as the dominant player.
▪ But neither was the dominant player the Redskins had anticipated.
▪ Combined, the deal quickly made SoftKey the dominant player in educational software.
▪ For instance, which operating system will be the dominant player on these access devices?
position
▪ It may also be powerful between close relatives where one may be in a dominant position vis-à-vis the other.
▪ With many browsers and server programs available, Netscape will lose its dominant position in the business.
▪ For centuries, they gave it a dominant position.
▪ For the undertaking m a dominant position, valuable lessons are to be learned from these examples.
▪ Conversely, those under attack from undertakings in dominant positions from other member states have valuable defences to attacking market dominant undertakings.
▪ The dominant position these companies occupied in the economy was sufficient for their position to be questioned.
▪ A company in a dominant position which charges excessive prices for its products may be acting abusively.
role
▪ Findings show that A-levels continue to play a dominant role in regulating entry to Higher Education.
▪ How do you account for the dominant role of corporations in our economy?
▪ The females play a dominant role, marking out for themselves a large territory on the lotus beds.
▪ In fact, however, most contemporary legislatures do not have the dominant role in the policy-making function.
▪ This fusion is cemented by the dominant role of monopoly capital in financing and influencing non-communist political parties and the mass media.
▪ What emerges from this brief overview is the dominant role of the clergy in Southern education.
▪ Within a reasonable period after the end of the year covered by the accounts, those accounts may have a dominant role.
theme
▪ The dominant theme of this literature was concern for the well-being of the peasantry.
▪ Durkheim is perhaps the key protagonist of this dominant theme of profound social change.
▪ Britain's poor economic performance has been the dominant theme of political debate and economic discourse since the 1950s.
▪ However, for all dominant themes of harmony, within the noisy ambiguity there might also be quieter, discordant notes.
▪ The dominant theme remains still-life and the prominence of lamps and the pools of light which they shed.
▪ A dominant theme in these portrayals is criminality in East End communities: small-time crooks, petty crime and drinking clubs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ dominant and aggressive behavior
▪ At the time Portugal was the dominant naval power in the Mediterranean.
▪ Brown eyes are dominant.
▪ Gradually, Microsoft became the dominant company in the software business
▪ TV is the dominant source of information in our society.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the dominant urban feature in the inter-war period was the growth and spread of London.
▪ He suggests that in all cases contradictory discourses are neutralised by the dominant, privileged discourse.
▪ In all of these situations the dominant social system lost its ability to adapt.
▪ Of course, these features of a society will themselves be influenced by its dominant style of adjudication.
▪ Overseas, Nielsen remains dominant in gathering sales and other data from retailers.
▪ Their strident moralism jarred with both the measured middle-class radicalism of the repealers and the dominant patrician language of high politics.
▪ These are the dominant players in the Internet access hierarchy and provide other smaller service providers with backbone connectivity.
▪ This was the dominant motif for schools in the first half of the century.
II.nounEXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the dominants have high frequency here with Calluna the most dominant, and Cladonia species are frequent.
▪ As the Dolphin approaches, summoned by Arion's song, the suspense is maintained almost to the last by means of secondary dominants.