DOMINANT


Meaning of DOMINANT in 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 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. noun

EXAMPLES 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.

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