Dominant
['dɒmɪnənt] or ['dɑmɪnənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale.
(adj.) exercising influence or control; 'television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion'; 'the dominant partner in the marriage' .
(adj.) (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar .
格雷西校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
(n.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
阿伊达整理
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Prevailing, ruling, predominant, predominating, ascendant, in the ascendant.
卡拉校對
同義詞及反義詞：
[See DOMINANCE]
錄入:曼蒂
解釋/意思:
adj. prevailing: predominant.—n. (mus.) the fifth note of the scale in its relation to the first and third.—ns. Dom′inance Dom′inancy ascendency.—adv. Dom′inantly.
編輯:弗吉尼亚
例句/造句/用法:
- No doubt this automatic and balanced theory of government suited admirably that distrust of the people which seems to have been a dominant feeling among the Fathers. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The dominant species belonging to large and dominant groups tend to leave many modified descendants, which form new sub-groups and groups. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Is not the dominant and masterful power of the lion or the eagle related to a carniverous diet, and the mild and placid temper of the ox the reflex expression of his vegetable food? Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- If not a dominant and commanding race, they are, at least, an affectionate, magnanimous, and forgiving one. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I can see it leaking out in fifty different ways,--just the same strong, overbearing, dominant spirit. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The dominant northern colony was Massachusetts. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But if the conferva or parasitic fungus exceeds its allies in the above respects, it will then be dominant within its own class. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- But as all groups cannot thus go on increasing in size, for the world would not hold them, the more dominant groups beat the less dominant. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- She wanted to have, to own, to control, to be dominant. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The Anglo Saxon is the dominant race of the world, and _is to be so_. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The tormenting humour which was dominant there stopped them both. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- By 1761 the British found themselves completely dominant in the Indian peninsula. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They become dangerous to a nation when it denies them, thwarts them and represses them so long that they burst out and become dominant. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- And in this new electrical industry, in laying its essential foundations, Edison has again been one of the dominant figures. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Nowhere is conscience so dominant and all-absorbing as with New England women. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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