S vs Dominant - What's the difference?
s | dominant |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(music) 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.
(music) The triad built on the dominant tone.
(BDSM) The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
* 2011 , Jayne Rylon, Mistress's Master (page 65)
Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling.
* Macaulay
Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.
* 2009 , H. Stephen Stoker, General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry , page 10
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun dominant is
(music) 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.As an adjective dominant is
ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling.s
Translingual
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Symbol
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(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}dominant
English
Noun
(en noun)- His story was a fable you told dominants in training to stress the importance of comprehending the depths of your submissive's needs.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The dominant party controlled the government.
- The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, but imperious, insolent, and cruel.
- The dominant plants of the Carboniferous were lycopods and early conifers.
- All other elements are mere "impurities" when their abundances are compared with those of these two dominant elements.