| 单词 | dominant |
| 释义 | dominant (dɒmɪnənt ) 1. adjective Someone or something that is dominant is more powerful, successful, influential, or noticeable than other people or things. ...a change which would maintain his party's dominant position in Scotland. She was a dominant figure in the French film industry. Synonyms: main, chief, primary, outstanding 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A dominant gene is one that produces a particular characteristic, whether a person has only one of these genes from one parent, or two genes, one from each parent. Compare recessive. [technical] Dimples are quite rare and caused by one dominant gene Collocations: dominant element Whether moving or still, water can become the dominant element in any garden — and many are created around it. Times, Sunday Times Most accounts of gut contents have identified coniferous twigs as the dominant element in their diet. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A dominant element was the intellectual angle they took. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The appropriate species name depends on the dominant element. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The dominant element in these buildings, was the tiled roof supported by timber beams and rafters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And it was her youth that proved the dominant factor in a performance that lacked musical muscle, but fizzed with fun. Times, Sunday Times Fishing has been by far the dominant factor spoiling the oceans. Times, Sunday Times The fear of losing was the dominant factor in a staggeringly scrappy, subdued first 45 minutes. Times, Sunday Times But it's only a matter of time before the real issue of demand becomes the dominant factor in the housing market, not the credit crunch. Times, Sunday Times Is newness or the surface itself the dominant factor in its success? Times, Sunday Times Trills are a dominant feature, growing enormous towards the end, as though pure figuration has finally taken over. Times, Sunday Times Many hopes for reform rested with him; yet his intuitive distrust of opposition became the dominant feature of his rule. Times, Sunday Times I recall presenting a patient on the weekly ward round with a rare medical condition whose incontinence was the dominant feature in her life. Times, Sunday Times The scrum has been a dominant feature in the game for many years now and the tight-head prop became your most valuable asset. Times, Sunday Times Often it's the dominant feature. Times, Sunday Times He was the dominant figure on the court, firing down the serves, mopping up at the back court, cutting out at the net. Times, Sunday Times The tears of the team's dominant figure became the most vivid symbol of defeat. Times, Sunday Times He thinks the sport needs a dominant figure to transcend it, but alas he transcended the course only with his azalea hunt. Times, Sunday Times Like their pirate counterparts, they display a dichotomy of a fat, blustering, dominant figure versus a thin, semi-perceptive, reticent figure. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The four black bulls, or aurochs, are the dominant figures among the 36 animals represented here. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I think linguistic philosophy is still the dominant force, but it has become considerably more sophisticated in recent years. The Times Literary Supplement (2014) They are counting on being the dominant force by the general election in 2018 and may well try to engineer a snap election before then. Times, Sunday Times (2016) December, the outlook is for the unusual weather to continue, and a weak and meandering jet stream with high pressure to remain the dominant force. Times, Sunday Times (2016) This other character is becoming a dominant force. The Sun (2009) Humans have always been the dominant force in the relationship, but that could be changing. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Some of the stories avoid the dominant tone, even if they accept the dominant form. The Times Literary Supplement After a strong clay season, she was seemingly back to the dominant form of old. Times, Sunday Times Email has become such a dominant form of communication that cutting it out altogether will distort the connection between customers and companies. Times,Sunday Times For someone like me, who works in a less dominant form, it's interesting to see how this works. Times, Sunday Times He shows how science conquered theology to become the dominant form of knowledge, enabling a 'totalized view of any natural or human object'. The Times Literary Supplement A dominant gene produces this small bump. Times, Sunday Times A dominant gene that reduces the number of toes resulting in a lobster-claw appearance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This a naturally occurring, cat body-type mutation of the spine, caused by a dominant gene. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This mutation may be a dominant gene, in that even one copy of the mutated allele will produce gaitedness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In addition to being an incomplete dominant gene, the hairless gene has a prenatal lethal effect when homozygous. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It meant he escaped the potentially dominant influence of a single teacher. Times, Sunday Times She emerges from this biography as a dominant influence on the poet. The Times Literary Supplement This occurred in the nineteenth century, when history began to rival geography as a dominant influence on clothes. The Times Literary Supplement The report said that a handful of very large companies had a 'highly dominant influence' over how the internet was used. Times, Sunday Times The state in the hands of the bureaucracy has remained a dominant influence in the economy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Speakers may resist culturally dominant language and oppose cultural authority by maintaining their own varieties of speech. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some heritage learners may lose some fluency in the first language after beginning formal education in the dominant language. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In large societies with one dominant language/culture, it may be difficult to find such a person. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its backers and others predicted that it might become a dominant language for general purpose programming and not just defense-related work. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These include the small number of speakers, the decline in the number of speakers, and their occasional consideration as uncultured, primitive, or simple dialects when compared to the dominant language. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The old concerns about dominant market position do not apply. Times, Sunday Times It maintains a dominant market share in womenswear. Times, Sunday Times As the dominant market player, some say that there was a whiff of arrogance about its stance. Times, Sunday Times That tells me we still have a way to go yet before greed takes over from fear again as the dominant market sentiment. Times, Sunday Times Clearly they have dominant market power. Times, Sunday Times Each person operates in all three modes at one time or another but usually has one dominant mode. Christianity Today Researchers suggest that the dominant mode can be identified through an individual's speech pattern. Christianity Today For most of human history, superstition was the dominant mode of explanation. Times, Sunday Times Any company that makes only minor improvements to excellent existing products might as well give up, according to the dominant mode of thinking. Times, Sunday Times Softly strummed guitars are the dominant mode, rueful midlife introspection the prevailing tone. Times, Sunday Times The end confirms the sense of gravity and foreboding that has been the dominant mood of the speech. Times, Sunday Times His tone contrasted with what has become the dominant mood: never mind prudence, let the spending rip. Times, Sunday Times But the dominant mood was a lighter one. Houston Chronicle This gives the stories powerful traction, but also makes the worlds that they construct relatively thin: colours, textures, weather and noise are rarely noted unless they reinforce the dominant mood. The Times Literary Supplement The dominant mood among the political and media establishment was that such incidents happen. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's no wonder that this dominant narrative has helped create the political turbulence we've seen in the past few years. Times,Sunday Times We rarely hear about this side of football because it so flatly contradicts the dominant narrative. Times, Sunday Times He didn't realise how quickly one dominant narrative can be replaced by another, and he failed to hold the election that could have saved him. Times, Sunday Times It shouldn't be, but somehow it disrupts the dominant narrative. Times, Sunday Times Such programs originated in radio, but today, sitcoms are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This remains a dominant paradigm in business and, indeed, economic theory. Times, Sunday Times Historically, narcissistic leadership was the dominant paradigm. Times, Sunday Times Their structural contingency theory was the dominant paradigm of organizational structural theories for most of the 1970s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the 1920s, behaviorism became the dominant paradigm, and remained so until the 1950s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He became a strong proponent of the new ideas of mechanised warfare, seeing it as a new and dominant paradigm in military strategy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The suggestion that having a dominant party was bad for democracy was 'like saying that the people have got it wrong', he said. Times, Sunday Times The dominant party locally was also the party in distant government and under a spectacularly unpopular leader at a time of collapsing economic confidence. Times, Sunday Times For this reason, the prime minister and his cabinet are necessarily from the dominant party or coalition in the assembly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although minor parties were allowed, they were legally required to accept the leadership of the dominant party. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The councils were composed of three to six ministers elected by the territorial assemblies on the advice of the dominant party. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We don't meekly bow before the most dominant personality. Christianity Today In other words, a system based on one huge, dominant personality works in terms of results. Times, Sunday Times She was very much the dominant personality. Times, Sunday Times She was the dominant personality in the relationship. Times, Sunday Times In the field, his astute captaincy again seemed to make him the game's dominant personality. Times, Sunday Times He was the winner, the dominant player in the market place but failed to adapt to new challenges. Times, Sunday Times Rather, he was sometimes simply outclassed by a more dominant player. Times, Sunday Times Oh, yes, and without abandoning his vision of his country's future as the dominant player in a new world order. Times, Sunday Times The lack of a dominant player has been hailed as one reason for golf's fading popularity, with falling playing numbers and shrinking crowds. Times, Sunday Times The dominant player in the fund-selling market has not revealed its hand yet. Times, Sunday Times He even sat up straighter, higher, the pose of a man reaching a dominant position, looking down at his adversaries. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE (2002) They've got such a dominant position. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The company's dominant position has made it highly sought-after. Times, Sunday Times (2013) That has lead to calls for some of the frequencies to be sold off so that the enlarged business does not have a dominant position. Times, Sunday Times (2015) They now became the dominant power on the coast. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They alternated at being the dominant power in the area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Diesel electric propulsion became the dominant power system and equipment such as the periscope became standardized. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The referee has dominant power over the squash players. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As you'd expect, the world's dominant powers have recognised this global trend and are ahead of the curve. Times, Sunday Times From a flaky player who could go missing last season to a dominant presence this. The Sun He had become a dominant presence at the club, a key reason for the improvement in results. Times, Sunday Times It enjoys a dominant presence in niches with high operating margins and has a strong track record in increasing profits and dividends. Times, Sunday Times An effortlessly dominant presence, she sang with a curious mixture of raw aggression and kittenish seduction. Times, Sunday Times No matter what, he will be the dominant presence. Houston Chronicle Factors: education, income, and whether the dominant religion forgives divorce or forbids it. Christianity Today She pays scientists to produce fake miracles in order to make hers the dominant religion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This often involves a dominant religion forcing limitations on less prevalent ones. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His was the only name on the masthead during a time when resentment was high against a dissenting opinion against the dominant religion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Confidence within the dominant sector fell across the board. Times, Sunday Times The nervousness was heightened by the better than expected news on services, the dominant sector of the economy. Times, Sunday Times Services, the dominant sector of the economy and normally its saviour, also appears to have caught a cold. Times, Sunday Times Growth was already down in the first quarter as services, the economy's dominant sector, expanded by only 0.5 per cent, in the weakest performance for three years. Times, Sunday Times In 2004, however, services replaced research as the dominant sector category for cost-plus contracts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Eight seasons ago there were just 40 games in which teams finished with such a dominant share of possession. Times, Sunday Times As well as enjoying a dominant share of the grocery sector, it has moved into everything from clothing to kitchens. The Sun Throughout his career, scenes from everyday life gain an increasingly dominant share of his paintings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Bacillus cereus was the dominant species in this deposit of aluminosilicate minerals. 2002, 'Biological and chemical interactions excelerating the removal of impurities from fly ashes', Acta Montanistica Slovaca Nuphar lutea persisted as the most dominant species in 1996 and 2005. 2011, 'Temporal changes of aquatic macrophytes vegetation in a Iowland groundwater feed eutrophic course (Klátovské rameno, Slovakia)', Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae The phyllosphere and phylloplane regions of green and yellow leaves harboured different dominant species. 2015, 'Leaf surface microflora of Hordeum vulgare L.', Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae Over the next few years the flop became the dominant style of the event and remains so today. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The experimentalism that had characterized the 1980s declined as grunge took hold as the dominant style in rock music. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This in turn displaced gangsta rap as the dominant style of hip hop at the time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For enlisted soldiers, the tricorne was replaced by the shako at the turn of the 19th century, which had become the new dominant style of military headgear from 1800 on. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Already in early '90s it was the most dominant style, no longer penalized as it had proven to be both safer and better than the previous style. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Right now, the dominant theory involves silica-laden water, which flows across sediment and fills cracks and cavities in its path. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite such criticisms, the trade-off theory remains the dominant theory of corporate capital structure as taught in the main corporate finance textbooks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Functionalism has consequently fallen out of vogue as a dominant theory in the philosophy of mind. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The dominant theory of this mode include the liberal theory of the free press. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Preformationism, especially ovism, was the dominant theory of generation during the 18th century. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 About half of cases are inherited from a parent as an autosomal dominant trait. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The spotting became a dominant trait in the offspring, and the beginnings of a new breed emerged. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Lactase persistence behaves as a dominant trait because half levels of lactase activity are sufficient to show significant digestion of lactose. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Dominant traits of the organizational design include a determined effort to make operating work routine, simple and repetitive and to standardize work processes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Incomplete dominant traits differ from recessive traits, which are only visible in the homozygous state, and simple dominant traits, which are just as visible in the homozygous or heterozygous state. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet it seems a perverse denial of progress to portray this as the dominant trend of our time. Times, Sunday Times The dominant trend in television over the past decade has been the transformational show. Times, Sunday Times A dominant trend of the 21st century has been the return of the styles of the 1980s, mostly in fashion, but also in investment. Times, Sunday Times Towards the late 20th century, the dominant trend was to use it to group all typical sunbirds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The dominant trend has been to regard only statistical averages. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The idea has grown since then and become increasingly dominant. Times,Sunday Times Beginning about 500 years ago, grey technology became increasingly dominant, as we learnt to build machines that used power from wind and water and steam and electricity. Times, Sunday Times These concepts became increasingly dominant from the 1980s and gradually acquired a virtual monopoly on senior university appointments and research funding. Times, Sunday Times Won two first-half penalties and increasingly dominant in the loose. Times, Sunday Times On the playing field, major league pitchers were becoming increasingly dominant again. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 More directly - and convincingly - authoritarian was the campaign to 'colonize' the night by reclaiming it from the previously dominant marginal groups. The Times Literary Supplement But this time previously dominant defenders were holding off. The Sun If that was bad enough for the previously dominant hosts, worse was to follow within minutes of the restart. Times, Sunday Times The development of the frequentist account was motivated by the problems and paradoxes of the previously dominant viewpoint, the classical interpretation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Iron ores were far more widespread than the rarer materials needed to produce the previously dominant bronze: copper, but especially, tin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In general, the more socially dominant a person, the more partners they had, not least because they show little fear of approaching strangers. Times, Sunday Times Men with wide faces are also judged to be more socially dominant and aggressive. Times, Sunday Times Socially dominant individuals are more likely to frown than those of a lower social status. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Control animals are not necessarily, or even usually, those that are socially dominant in conflict situations, though they frequently are. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Serotonin inhibits the fleeing reaction in subordinates, but enhances it in socially dominant or isolated individuals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 处于支配地位的 Japanese: 優勢な |
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