dominant

Pluraldominants

1. 1
   adjective

   Having the most power or control over others.

   Like the captain of a team, whose decisions everyone follows.

   The dominant team won every game this season.

   Within the group, one person was clearly dominant.

   Similarruling, controlling, powerful, commanding, supreme

   Oppositesubordinate, weak, minor

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2. 2
   adjective

   Most important or most common in a place or group.

   Like the loudest color in a picture: the one you see first.

   Red was the dominant color in the painting.

   Corn is the dominant crop in this part of the country.

   Similarpredominant, prevailing, prevalent, main, principal

   Oppositeminor, secondary, marginal

3. 3
   adjective

   Stronger and used more skillfully than its pair, like the hand you write with.

   Like the hand you naturally use to write or throw a ball.

   Most people throw a ball with their dominant hand.

   She kicks the ball with her dominant foot.

   Similarpreferred

4. 4
   nouncountable

   A plant or animal type that is the most common and important in its area.

   Like the biggest tree in a forest that shades everything below it.

   In this old woodland, the oak is the dominant.

   Among the reef creatures, one coral became the dominant.

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5. 5
   nouncountable

   The partner who takes control in certain kinds of sexual play.

   In their relationship, she is the dominant.

   The dominant set clear rules before anything began.

   Oppositesubmissive

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6. 6
   nouncountable

   The fifth note of a musical scale, counting upward from the main note.

   Like a note that sounds like a question, making you want to hear the answer.

   In the key of C, the dominant is G.

   The song ends by moving from the dominant back to the main note.

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7. 7
   nouncountable

   The three-note chord built on the fifth note of the scale.

   Like a chord that makes you lean forward, waiting for the music to settle.

   In C major, the dominant is the chord built on G.

   The piece pauses on the dominant, leaving the music sounding unfinished.

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8. 8
   adjective

   Belonging to or based on the fifth note of a scale.

   The song uses a dominant chord just before the final note.

   A dominant seventh sounds like it wants to move on.

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9. 9
   noun

   Describes a gene form that shows its effect even when paired with a different one.

   Like a bright paint color that still shows even when mixed with a paler one.

   Brown eye color comes from a dominant gene.

   The trait is dominant, so one copy is enough to show it.

   Oppositerecessive

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10. 10
    adjective

    Describing the one ovarian follicle that keeps growing and finally releases an egg.

    Like one seedling in a pot that grows tall while the others fade away.

    Each month, one dominant follicle grows large enough to release an egg.

    The scan showed a dominant follicle on the right ovary.

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