Word Finder - predominate

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To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.

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To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.

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To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.

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Predominant.

The Roman Catholic Croats predominate in Dalmatia, north-western Bosnia and Croatia-Slavonia.

White and yellow colours predominate and insects with a proboscis of medium length are the common pollinating agents, such as short-tongued bees.

The intrusive rOcks predominate over the schists in extent of area covered.

The gloss is greatest on the upper parts; on the tail the bristly hairs predominate.

Of the Aryan races the Slavs - Serbs, Bulgarians, Pomaks and Cossacks - and the Greeks predominate, the other representatives being chiefly Albanians and Kurds.

Monotremes (2 species) and marsupials (4 families and 44 species) predominate, but are not abundant.

Most of them are the metamorphic products of igneous rocks, among which extrusive rocks, many of them pyroelastic, predominate.

After 1836 there was a large influx of Anglo-Americans and Germans, and the Mexican element long ago ceased to predominate.

They show an elongation of forms and an excess of decoration in which the florid qualities predominate.

On the west coast the ilex, plane, oak, valonia oak, and pine predominate.

Its inhabitants are of various tribes, among which the Yoruba now predominate.

The first two predominate earlier, and gradually recede before the last-named.

Are assertions or statements of not knowing still predominate?

Frying, braising, grilling, baking and roasting are the predominate cooking methods.

Aridity has favoured the production of spines as a defence from external attack, sharp thorns are frequent, and asperities of various sorts predominate.

West of the Sutlej the population of Asia may be said to be wholly Mahommedan with the exception of certain relatively small areas in Asia Minor and Syria, where Christians predominate.

In the southern and central portions of the state open rolling prairies interspersed with groves and belts of oak and other deciduous hard-wood timber predominate.

This soil prevails throughout the southern counties and the Minnesota and Red River valleys, in which sections cereal crops predominate.

In some valleys there are expanses of sugar-cane, in others cotton, whilst in others vineyards and olive-yards predominate.

He is pictured on monuments and seal cylinders with the lightning and the thunderbolt, and in the hymns the sombre aspects of the god on the whole predominate.

In inner Persia the hills and plains are bare of trees, and steppe and desert predominate.

In the verb ripound forms predominate.

At Megidia, a flourishing town of about 1 0,000 inhabitants, which sprang up after 1860 between Cernavoda and Constantza, the Tatars predominate.

The best properties surround the park where grand Victorian conversions predominate.

Where body armor is limited in both coverage and availability then shields would usually predominate as the primary form of personal protection.

If gravity and surface tension did not predominate, the water drops on the surface would still be spherical as well.

Negroid peoples predominate, but there are many pastoral Fula and Arabs.

With one great exception, the dictum of Guizot is hardly an exaggeration, that " there is not in the Constitution of the United States an element of order, of force, of duration, which he did not powerfully contribute to introduce into it and to cause to predominate."

Around the European coastline it is the semidiurnal oscillations the predominate.

After all, this flavor will predominate in most Daiquiris, no matter which other fruits are used in addition.

The predominate materials for furniture and other finishes were light woods, chrome, vinyl, formica and plexiglass.

Cantonese is the predominate style of cooking in Hong Kong and in many American Chinese restaurants.

The socks need to be color matched to the predominate color your team uses.

But for a long period past the freshwater streams (which predominate) have been used for irrigation to such a degree that very little of the precious water is allowed to run to waste into the lake basins; so that these latter receive only a few salt streams, which deposit on their surface the salt they contain and then evaporate.

Granite and serpentine rocks predominate, but the shores of Amboyna Bay are of chalk, and contain stalactite caves.

West of the volcanic region, nearer to Lake Victoria and the Eastern province, ironstone, granite, gneiss and schistose formations predominate, with phonolite in places.

Hence the octave, though comparatively feeble in the incident train, may predominate in the scattered reflection constituting the echo.

The Laos predominate in northern and eastern Siam, Malays mingle with the Siamese in southern Siam, and the Chinese are found scattered all over, but keeping mostly to the towns.

Meanwhile a Bavarian Assembly had been elected, and the Bavarian reactionaries feared that, when it assembled, Eisner's influence might continue to predominate or might even be fortified.

Practically the only grain crops that are cultivated are oats (which greatly predominate) and barley, while the favoured root crops are turnips (much the most extensively grown) and potatoes.

Taken as a whole, the finches, concerning which no reasonable doubt can exist, are not only little birds with a hard bill, adapted in most cases for shelling and eating the various seeds that form the chief portion of their diet when adult, but they appear to be mainly forms which predominate in and are highly characteristic of the Palaearctic Region; moreover, though some are found elsewhere on the globe, the existence of but very few in the Notogaean hemisphere can as yet be regarded as certain.

But it is obvious that certain distributions will predominate, for the crystals will tend to fall so as to offer the least resistance to their motion; a needle-shaped crystal tending to keep its axis vertical, a plate-shaped crystal to keep its axis horizontal.

The Sunnites, who accept the orthodox tradition (Sunna) as well as the Koran as a source of theologico-juristic doctrines, predominate in Arabia, the Turkish Empire, the north of Africa, Turkestan, Afghanistan and the Mahommedan parts of India and the east of Asia; the Shi`ites have their main seat in Persia, where their confession is the state religion, but are also scattered over the whole sphere of Islam, especially in India and the regions bordering on Persia, except among the nomad Tatars, who are all nominally Sunnite.

Speaking broadly, rice and oilseeds predominate in the eastern and sub-Himalayan districts, millets and cotton in Bundelkhand and wheat in the greater part of the Gangetic plain.

He sought to make anger predominate over love; and he had his will, becoming prince of hell, the kingdom of God's anger, which still remains, however, an integral part of the Divine universe.

The Americans happened to predominate.

A portion of this province in which weak rocks predominate gives an unusually broad valley region, known as the Valley of Virginia, drained by the Shenandoah river, and the headwaters of the James, Roanoke, New, and Holston rivers, which dissect the broad valley floor into gently rolling low hills.

Then follows the chequered period of the prime of life and middle age, during which the liability of men to industrial accidents, war and other causes of special mortality, irrespective of their greater inclination to emigrate, is generally sufficient to outweigh the dangers of childbirth or premature decay among the women, who tend, accordingly, to predominate in number at this stage.

If pure yeast is added in this manner in relatively large quantities, it will tend to predominate, inasmuch as the number of yeast cells derived from the grapes is at the commencement of fermentation relatively small.

Cardigan, in Welsh Aberteifi, from its situation near the mouth of the Teifi, and Brecon, in Welsh Aberhonddu, from its site near the confluence of the Usk and Honddu, are examples of corrupted Welsh names in common use - Ceredigion, Brychan - which possess in addition pure Celtic forms. In the third division, English place-names are tolerably frequent everywhere and predominate in the Marches and on the South Wales coast.