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Definition: Dominating |
DominatingAdjective1. Most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe". 2. Used of a height or viewpoint; "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom". 3. Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dominating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This concept is most important in no limit play, where it is possible to bet all your money early in the hand. One must judge not only whether your opponent's hand might be better than yours, but whether or not it might dominate yours to such a degree that long-run fluctuations of luck will amplify the consequences of a mistaken play rather than mitigating them.
One of the things that makes no limit Texas hold'em strategically rich and interesting is the unusual relationship of advantage and dominance among various Starting hands. For example, the hand A♣ K♦ is a slight favorite over J♠ 10♠; this hand is a slight favorite over 4♠ 4♣; and in a non-transitive relationship, the fours are a small favorite over A♣ K♦. None of these hands dominates any other, but A♣ K♦ does domimate A♥ Q♦, 4♠ 4♣ is dominated by 7♠ 7♥, and J♠ 10♠ is dominated by Q♣ 10♣.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dominating hand."
Synonyms: DominatingSynonyms: ascendant (adj), ascendent (adj), autocratic (adj), bossy (adj), commanding (adj), high-and-mighty (adj), magisterial (adj), overlooking (adj), peremptory (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Strength | Resistless, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable, unconquerable, indomitable, dominating, inextinguishable, unquenchable; incontestable; more than a match for; overpowering, overwhelming; all powerful, all sufficient; sovereign. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dominating |
| English words defined with "dominating": ascendant, ascendent, autocratic ♦ bossy ♦ commanding ♦ domination, dominatrix ♦ high-and-mighty ♦ magisterial ♦ overlooking ♦ peremptory ♦ syllabic ♦ Vasomotor center. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dominating": dominant formative discharge. (references) |
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 | Steaming under forced draft, bound for Vera Cruz, Mexico, in Mid-April 1914. View looks aft and up, with the battleship's "cage" foremast and the top of her starboard boat crane dominating the image. Note searchlights and signal hoists. Credit: NAVY. |  | The dominating sex. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Main street of Brigham, Utah. In the small shopping centers in the Mormon communities the business establishments are likely to be many small ones rather than one large company dominating. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Health | Leaders who empathize, gently draw out shy members, and keep others from dominating, and who distill discussion into useful information. (references) | |
Business | Domestic firms are strong and dominating in their respective “niches”. (references) | |
Imports supply a 95% share, dominating the automotive service equipment market. (references) | ||
Regular-size Vans also sell well, but until now Asian manufacturers have been dominating the market. (references) | ||
Discrimination | Papua New Guinea | Extreme geographic diversity prevents any one tribe or clan from dominating the country. (references) |
Economic History | Costa Rica | There is not a single dominating force in the market. (references) |
Sweden | U.S. suppliers, dominating the import market, enjoy a good reputation. (references) | |
Political Economy | Turkey | Economics: In 1994 the U.S. Department of Commerce designated Turkey as one of the world's ten "Big Emerging Markets." In 2000, U.S.-Turkish bilateral trade reached nearly USD 7 billion, with Turkey exporting USD 3.041 billion to the United States, with apparel and textiles, tobacco and iron & steel dominating Turkish trade. (references) |
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| "Dominating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 79.58% of the time. "Dominating" is used about 284 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 79.58% | 226 | 20,021 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 19.37% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 284 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dominating": dominating strategy ♦ enterprise dominating the market ♦ market dominating enterprise ♦ maximum dominating time. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "dominating": all-dominating, market-dominating, pre-dominating, world-dominating. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dominating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | متسلط (authoritative, bossy, commanding, masterful). (various references) | |
Chinese | 凌驾 (Dominate, Dominated). (various references) | |
Danish | dominerende strategi (dominating strategy), dominerende anion (dominant anion, dominating anion, main anion, major anion, principal anion), maksimal skiftetid (maximum dominating time). (various references) | |
Dutch | dominerende strategie (dominating strategy), maximale overheersingstijd (maximum dominating time), hoofdanion (dominant anion, dominating anion, main anion, major anion, principal anion). (various references) | |
Finnish | vallitseva (dominant, prevailing, prevalent), hallitseva (ruling). (various references) | |
French | dominateur (domineering), dominant (dominant). (various references) | |
German | dominierend (dominant, henpecking), herrschend (commandingly, current, dominant, dominantly, established, prevailing, prevailingly, prevalent, regent, regently, reigning, ruling). (various references) | |
Greek | κύριο ανιόν (dominant anion, dominating anion, main anion, major anion, principal anion), κυρίαρχη στρατηγική (dominating strategy), μέγιστος χρόνος κυριαρχίας (maximum dominating time), μείζον ανιόν (dominant anion, dominating anion, main anion, major anion, principal anion). (various references) | |
Italian | dominante (dominant, leading, prevailing, ruling). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 下剋上 (juniors dominating seniors, retainer supplanting his lord), 下克上 (juniors dominating seniors, retainer supplanting his lord). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | '"くじょう (juniors dominating seniors, retainer supplanting his lord). (various references) | |
Korean | 지배 (Bossing, Dominant, Domination, governance, mastering, mastery, reign, ruling). (various references) | |
Manx | kioneysagh (assertive, commanding, domineer, high-handed), chiarnyssagh (authoritative, bossy, seigniorial). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ominatingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tempo recorrente maximo (maximum dominating time), estratégia dominante (dominating strategy), anião principal (dominant anion, dominating anion, main anion, major anion, principal anion), anião predominante (dominant anion, dominating anion, main anion, major anion, principal anion), anião dominante (dominant anion, dominating anion, main anion, major anion, principal anion). (various references) | |
Romanian | dominator. (various references) | |
Spanish | dominante (besetting, bossy, commanding, dominant, domineering, masterful, ruling, towering). (various references) | |
Swedish | dominerande (ascendant, bossy, dominant, domineering, masterful, overbearing, paramount, predominant, predominantly). (various references) | |
Turkish | hakim (adjudicator, beak, commanding, dominant, judge, justice, magisterial, predominant, recorder, ruler, savant, solon, sov'ran), egemen olan (in the ascendant, in the ascendent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "dominating": predominating. (additional references) | |
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"Dominating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dominati, dominoing, doninating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dominating" (pronounced dÄ"munā'ting) |
| 9 | d Ä" m u n ā' t i ng | predominating. |
| 8 | -Ä" m u n ā' t i ng | nominating. |
| 7 | -m u n ā' t i ng | contaminating, culminating, discriminating, disseminating, eliminating, emanating, exterminating, illuminating, incriminating, laminating, terminating. |
| 6 | -u n ā' t i ng | alienating, assassinating, chlorinating, coordinating, decaffeinating, detonating, fascinating, hydrogenating, impersonating, originating, procrastinating, rejuvenating, resonating, subordinating, urinating. |
| 5 | -n ā' t i ng | alternating, designating, donating, stagnating. |
| 4 | -ā' t i ng | anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, accelerating, accentuating, accommodating, abbreviating, abdicating, accumulating, activating, adjudicating, administrating, advocating, affiliating, aggravating, agitating, alleviating, allocating, articulating, assimilating, associating, authenticating, automating, calculating, captivating, castigating, castrating, celebrating, circulating, coagulating, collaborating, commemorating, communicating, compensating, complicating, concentrating, confiscating, congratulating, consolidating, consummating, contemplating, cooperating, corroborating, cultivating, debilitating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, degenerating, delegating, deliberating, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deteriorating, devastating, dictating, differentiating, disintegrating, dissipating, domesticating, duplicating, educating, elaborating, electroplating, elevating, emigrating, emulating, encapsulating, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, exacerbating, exaggerating, exasperating, excavating, excoriating, excruciating, exhilarating, exonerating, extenuating, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fluctuating, formulating, frustrating, generating, graduating, gravitating, gyrating, hesitating, humiliating, illustrating, imitating, implicating, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infiltrating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, instigating, insulating, integrating, interrogating, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, invigorating, irritating, isolating, legislating, levitating, liberating, liquidating, litigating, locating, lubricating, mandating, manipulating, masturbating, mediating, meditating, migrating, misappropriating, mitigating, moderating, motivating, mutilating, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negotiating, nitrating, nonoperating, obliterating, obviating, officiating, operating, orchestrating, oscillating, overestimating, overstating, participating, penetrating, percolating, permeating, perpetrating, perpetuating, placating, pontificating, populating, precipitating, prognosticating, proliferating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, radiating, reactivating, reallocating, recalculating, reciprocating, recreating, recuperating, redecorating, reevaluating, regenerating, regulating, rehabilitating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, relegating, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, replicating, repudiating, resuscitating, retaliating, reverberating, rotating, salivating, saturating, segregating, separating, simulating, speculating, stimulating, stipulating, suffocating, syndicating, tabulating, titillating, tolerating, underestimating, understating, undulating, vacillating, validating, ventilating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, appointing, abutting, accenting, accepting, abating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-i-m-n-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: dominant, donating, iodating. | |
-3 letters: atoning, damning, dinting, doating, gonidia, indamin, minding, minting, moaning, moating, tongman. | |
-4 letters: aiding, aiming, amidin, amnion, anoint, anting, daimio, daimon, dating, diamin, diatom, dining, domain, doming, doting, ganoid, gitano, indign, indigo, intima, manito, mantid, mating, mignon, mining, minion, naming, nation, niding, nomina, noting, taming, tiding, timing, tining, tinman, toning. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-i-m-n-n-o-t" | |
+2 letters: denominating. | |
+3 letters: predominating. | |
+4 letters: depigmentation. | |
+5 letters: decontaminating, demagnetization, depigmentations, nonintimidating. | |
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