| 单词 | dominant |
| 释义 | dom·i·nant I. 1. a. < the emperors were the dominant members of the papal-imperial partnership which claimed universal rule over all Christendom — W.K.Ferguson > < considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race — R.B.Taney > < in spite however of this rapid recovery of its strength by Mercia, Northumberland remained the dominant state in Britain — J.R.Green > < during the latter part of this period Islam was dominant over the greater part of India — Seymour Vesey-Fitzgerald > b. astrology < having Saturn dominant in his horoscope > 2. a. < an archaistic movement running counter to the dominant historical movement — Bernard Smith > < I will not say that money has ceased to be the dominant force in American life — Max Lerner > < this society has been the dominant influence in the city's musical life > b. < during the middle ages, for example, the feudal family was dominant over business and frequently ignored government — Herbert Agar > < a dominant individuality refuses to be subdued to what it works in — J.L.Lowes > < he occupied a dominant position in the Republican party counsels — H.W.H.Knott > 3. a. < the dome of the state capitol dominant on the skyline > < the dominant hill > b. of a forest tree 4. < the dominant industry > < the four principal eras of geological time may be identified by the names given to the dominant form of animal life in each — R.W.Murray > < cotton and corn are the dominant crops in the section > 5. a. < why a complex of beliefs is dominant at one time and subordinate at another — Irving Howe > < prolonged economic depression will invariably be accompanied by a loss of confidence in the dominant system — L.S.Feuer > : surpassing or overshadowing others in prominence < melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament — James Joyce > < the dominant hue of the glass should be sage green — H.G.Armstrong > b. < and certainly the least debatable fact in terms of American myth is that Abraham Lincoln became our dominant folk hero — E.H.Eby > < the dominant theme in the first book is the splendor of life — E.K.Brown > 6. < a dominant estate > < a dominant owner > 7. 8. 9. of paired bodily structures < dominant eye > < dominant hand > < dominant hemisphere > 10. of an allele < tallness is dominant, dwarfness recessive > < many apparently dominant characters are actually examples of multifactorial determination > — compare mendel's law 11. Synonyms: < a dominant economic group which calls itself an aristocracy — V.L.Parrington > < the dominant tendency of thought in the nineteenth century as expressed by Darwin — H.J.Mackinder > < the emigration to America had fortunately taken place in a way which made the English language and English institutions everywhere dominant — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > predominant stresses commanding influence and occasionally may suggest recent ascendancy < the Catholic Church must prosper by the French energy and with the French Crown at least strong and independent; better yet, predominant — Hilaire Belloc > < the emotional elements (and they were the predominant and overwhelming) of the Christian vita contemplativa — H.O.Taylor > paramount indicates supremacy in power, rank, or importance < Napoleon was master of the whole continent …. In the Europe of 1808 every State had been brought into a defined relation to the paramount power, by annexation, by vassalage, or by alliance on terms of submission — G.M.Trevelyan > < certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation — John Marshall > < as the paramount question in the life of a bird is the question of food — John Burroughs > preponderant and preponderating describe influence or power that outweighs everything else < some contact of some human individuals must necessarily happen if anything cultural is to spread. But the contact need by no means be the migration of whole populations; and the evidence is preponderant that mostly it is not — A.L.Kroeber > < through its banking and financial affiliations it also exercises a preponderating control over the money and credit of the country — Current History > Every other thing is clearly subordinate or inferior to that which is sovereign < forced to defend their contention that Parliament, although sovereign in the empire, did not have control over the internal affairs of the colonies — S.E.Morison & H.S.Commager > < the older superstition of medieval medicine that bloodletting is the only and the sovereign remedy for all bodily ills — M.R.Cohen > II. 1. < elimination of undesirable dominants in color films > < the deeper-lying psychic elements are the least readily brought into consciousness, while they are the constant unrealized dominants of the mind — A.G.Tansley > : one that is dominant < to the urban ecologist the central business district is considered a dominant, maintaining the control of certain environmental characteristics — Social Forces > < among the more traditional painters Dufy on the one hand and Van Gogh on the other seem to be the dominants — R.M.Coates > 2. a. b. < G is the dominant of the key of C > 3. biology a. b. 4. a. b. 5. |
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