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Dominant   /dˈɑmənənt/   Listen
Dominant

adjective
1.
Exercising influence or control.  "The dominant partner in the marriage"  Antonym: subordinate.
2.
(of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar.  Antonym: recessive.
3.
Most frequent or common.  Synonyms: predominant, prevailing, prevalent, rife.
noun
1.
(music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale.
2.
An allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different.  Synonym: dominant allele.



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"Dominant" Quotes from Famous Books



... be base in her to refuse. The greater the sacrifice the more gladly she would make it, in order that she too might prove that a Southern girl could not be surpassed in noblesse oblige by a Northern man. She was in one of those supreme moods in which men and women are swayed by one dominant impulse, and all other considerations become insignificant. The fact that those she loved were looking on was no restraint upon her feeling, and the sympathizing presence of the clergyman added to it. Indeed her emotion was almost religious. The man who had saved her from prison ...
— Without a Home • E. P. Roe
... trust me. You don't want me. You're only teasing." With a vehement effort she recovered some of her self-control. Pride was again active, the dominant emotion. "So am I only teasing," she concluded. "You're too jolly pleased ...
— Nocturne • Frank Swinnerton
... observed conditions. The scheme also assumes either selective fertilization or, what amounts to the same thing, infertility of gametic unions where like sex chromosomes are present. It also assumes that the large female sex chromosome is dominant in the presence of the male sex chromosome, and that the male sex chromosome is dominant in the presence of the small female sex chromosome. Or, it might rather be said that these are not really assumptions, but inferences as to what must be true if the heterochromosomes ...
— Studies in Spermatogenesis - Part II • Nettie Maria Stevens
... feminine, not the masculine, ideal which supplied the inspiration of art and the aroma of literature, which was found enshrined in the customs and common speech of mankind. To this I replied that man, being the dominant sex, had imposed his worship on the race as a conquering nation, its gods on the conquered. He, not woman, had been the creator of the art, the literature, and the language which were dedicated to her. Had woman been the dominant sex, the reverse might have happened, ...
— A Positive Romance - 1898 • Edward Bellamy
... which was then a growing one; and this led them also to form such friendships as they made amongst out-college men of their own way of thinking-with high churchmen, rather than St. Ambrose men. So they lived very much to themselves, and scarcely interfered with the dominant party. ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes


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