Dominant
['dɒmɪnənt] or ['dɑmɪnənt]
Definition
(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 .
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Prevailing, ruling, predominant, predominating, ascendant, in the ascendant.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DOMINANCE]
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- 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. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The dominant species belonging to large and dominant groups tend to leave many modified descendants, which form new sub-groups and groups. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If not a dominant and commanding race, they are, at least, an affectionate, magnanimous, and forgiving one. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I can see it leaking out in fifty different ways,--just the same strong, overbearing, dominant spirit. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The dominant northern colony was Massachusetts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But if the conferva or parasitic fungus exceeds its allies in the above respects, it will then be dominant within its own class. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- 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. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- She wanted to have, to own, to control, to be dominant. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Anglo Saxon is the dominant race of the world, and _is to be so_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The tormenting humour which was dominant there stopped them both. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- By 1761 the British found themselves completely dominant in the Indian peninsula. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They become dangerous to a nation when it denies them, thwarts them and represses them so long that they burst out and become dominant. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And in this new electrical industry, in laying its essential foundations, Edison has again been one of the dominant figures. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Nowhere is conscience so dominant and all-absorbing as with New England women. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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