PREDOMINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predominate mean? 

• PREDOMINATE (adjective)
  The adjective PREDOMINATE has 1 sense:

1. having superior power and influence

  Familiarity information: PREDOMINATE used as an adjective is very rare.

• PREDOMINATE (verb)
  The verb PREDOMINATE has 2 senses:

1. be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

2. appear very large or occupy a commanding position

  Familiarity information: PREDOMINATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDOMINATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having superior power and influence

Synonyms:

overriding; paramount; predominant; predominate; preponderant; preponderating

Context example:

the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism

Similar:

dominant (exercising influence or control)

• PREDOMINATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they predominate    ... he / she / it predominates   
Past simple: predominated   
Past participle: predominated   
-ing form: predominating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

dominate; predominate; prevail; reign; rule

Context example:

Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "predominate"):

override (prevail over)

overarch (be central or dominant)

outbalance; outweigh; overbalance; preponderate (weigh more heavily)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

predominance (the state of being predominant over others)

predominant (most frequent or common)

predomination (the state of being predominant over others)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Appear very large or occupy a commanding position

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

hulk; loom; predominate; tower

Context example:

Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall

Hypernyms (to "predominate" is one way to...):

lift; rear; rise (rise up)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

predomination (the quality of being more noticeable than anything else)

 Context examples 

A genus of bacteria within the phylum Bacteroidetes consisting of gram-negative bacilli or cocco-bacilli that comprise a major portion of the human normal flora, predominating in the intestinal tract.

(Bacteroides, NCI Thesaurus)

Sometimes Mr. Elton predominated, sometimes the Martins; and each was occasionally useful as a check to the other.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Connective tissue in which the fibrous component predominates.

(Dense Connective Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

The importins bind to APA when far from the chromosomes, where Ran-GDP predominates, but Ran-GTP near chromosomes causes importins to release APA factors including Tpx2 and NuMa, allowing them to stimulate microtubule formation.

(Mitotic Spindle Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A WHO grade I meningioma characterized by the presence of small and medium sized vessels that predominate over the meningioma cells.

(Angiomatous Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in which abnormal promyelocytes predominate.

(Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia with t(15;17)(q22;q12); PML-RARA, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

He stopped; his voice was breaking, and I do not know if rage or terror predominated in my own heart.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In white adipose cells, Tif2 predominates as the PPAR-gamma coactivator, stimulating fat uptake and adipogenesis in conditions of high-fat feeding.

(Obesity and Thermogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A long variant predominates in liver, while a short variant is present in conventional basement membranes.

(Collagen XVIII (Alpha 1), NCI Thesaurus)