dominant

[DomĀ·i*nant]

Dominant means to be in control. In a wolf pack, one male wolf fights the others, wins, and is considered the dominant, or alpha male. The other wolves in the pack do what he tells them.

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Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.

Noun
(music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale

Adjective
exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage"

Adjective
of genes; producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar


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.


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 with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel.
Dominant estate ∨ tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. Bouvier. Wharton's Law Dict. -- Dominant owner (Law), one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another. Syn. -- Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.

Dominant

Dom"i*nant, n. (Mus.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on. Dominant chord (Mus.), the chord based upon the dominant.

Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.

The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

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Usage Examples

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game eliminate waste and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

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