dominant
part of speech
adjective (dominant; more dominant, most dominant); noun (a dominant — music, rare)
meaning for a pupil
1) Dominant means the strongest, most important or most powerful in a group. tree →
2) Dominant can mean the most noticeable, the thing you see most, like a dominant colour. tree →
3) (science) A dominant gene is one whose feature shows up even if you got it from only one parent. tree →
4) (music) The dominant is the fifth note of a scale. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and sport it means stronger than the rest: «a dominant team». In science (genetics), brown eyes are often given as an example of a dominant feature (simplified), while blue are recessive. With animals, the dominant one leads the pack. Most people have a dominant hand, the one they write with. Phrases: «dominant hand», «dominant species», «dominant player».
examples
- Lions are the dominant animals on the savannah. tree →
- My dominant hand is my left hand. tree →
- Red is the dominant colour in the painting. tree →
- The dominant wolf eats first. tree →
- Our team was dominant in the second half. tree →
- The gene for brown eyes is usually dominant. tree →
- English is the dominant language on the internet. tree →
note
Adjective; noun: dominance; verb: dominate. Spelled with -ant (not -ent). Opposite in genetics: recessive. Myth: eye colour is controlled by several genes, so the simple «brown beats blue» rule is only an approximation.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «dominant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.