Dominant

(noun.) (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale.

(adj.) exercising influence or control; 'television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion'; 'the dominant partner in the marriage' .

(adj.) (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar .

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• No doubt this automatic and balanced theory of government suited admirably that distrust of the people which seems to have been a dominant feeling among the Fathers. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The dominant species belonging to large and dominant groups tend to leave many modified descendants, which form new sub-groups and groups. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Is not the dominant and masterful power of the lion or the eagle related to a carniverous diet, and the mild and placid temper of the ox the reflex expression of his vegetable food? Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• If not a dominant and commanding race, they are, at least, an affectionate, magnanimous, and forgiving one. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I can see it leaking out in fifty different ways,--just the same strong, overbearing, dominant spirit. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The dominant northern colony was Massachusetts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But if the conferva or parasitic fungus exceeds its allies in the above respects, it will then be dominant within its own class. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But as all groups cannot thus go on increasing in size, for the world would not hold them, the more dominant groups beat the less dominant. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• She wanted to have, to own, to control, to be dominant. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The Anglo Saxon is the dominant race of the world, and _is to be so_. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The tormenting humour which was dominant there stopped them both. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• By 1761 the British found themselves completely dominant in the Indian peninsula. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They become dangerous to a nation when it denies them, thwarts them and represses them so long that they burst out and become dominant. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• And in this new electrical industry, in laying its essential foundations, Edison has again been one of the dominant figures. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Nowhere is conscience so dominant and all-absorbing as with New England women. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.

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