dominant

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɒmɪnənt/    美 /ˈdɑmənənt/|/ˈdɔmɪnənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
  2. The triad built on the dominant tone.
  3. Of an allele, that a heterozygote for the allele has the same phenotype as the homozygote.
    — Finally, if we suppose provisionally that the mutant genes are dominant just as often as they are recessive, selection will be far more severe in eliminating the disadvantageous dominants than in eliminating the disadvantageous recessives.
  4. A species or organism that is dominant.
    — Landowners cannot afford to cut submerchantable trees, yet many hesitate to cut merchantable dominants and codominants at the risk of downgrading the residual stand.
  5. The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
    — This calendar is not for the faint of heart (unless you have some strong butch dominant to hold you while you swoon)
形容词 adj.
  1. Ruling; governing; prevailing
    — The dominant party controlled the government.
  2. Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.
    — The dominant plants of the Carboniferous were lycopods and early conifers.
  3. Preferred and used with greater dexterity than the other, as the right hand of a right-handed person or the left hand of a left-handed one.
  4. Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation.
  5. Being the dominant
    — Dominant seventh

词形变化

dominants plural more dominant comparative most dominant superlative

词汇关系

近义词
dominator
反义词
obedient submissive defiant rebellious
衍生词
secondary dominant subdominant antidominant codominant co-dominant dominance dominantly dominant seventh dominant seventh chord equidominant eudominant heterodominant hyperdominant immunodominant monodominant nondominant overdominant phenodominant postdominant pseudodominant quasidominant semidominant serodominant superdominant transdominant tremordominant underdominant undominant

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Middle French dominantbor.
English dominant
Borrowed from Middle French dominant.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Middle French dominantbor.
English dominant
Borrowed from Middle French dominant.
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