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dominance
English
Etymology
From dominant +? -ance.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?m?n?ns/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d??m?n?ns/
Noun
dominance (countable and uncountable, plural dominances)
- The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
- Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
- (physiology) The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
- (biology, genetics) The property of a gene such that it suppresses the expression of its allele.
Derived terms
- cross-dominance
- dominancy
- escalation dominance
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
dominance f (plural dominances)
- dominance
Further reading
- “dominance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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deny
English
Etymology
From Middle English denyen, from Old French denoier (“to deny, to repudiate”) (French dénier), from Latin denegare (“to deny, to refuse”), from de- (“away”) and negare (“to refuse”), the latter ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“no, not”). Doublet of denegate.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??na?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??na?/, /d?-/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Hyphenation: de?ny
Verb
deny (third-person singular simple present denies, present participle denying, simple past and past participle denied)
- (transitive) To disallow or reject.
- (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
- (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
- 1754, Jonathan Edwards, An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which is supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency
- To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.
- 1754, Jonathan Edwards, An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which is supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency
- To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
- (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
- To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- the falsehood of denying his opinion
- 1827, John Keble, The Christian Year
- thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- (obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.
- Deny can have a connotation that the denial is false; he denied knowing the accused has a more suspicious tone than he said he did not know the accused. However, in some formal usages, e.g. medical records, it can have a more neutral sense (patient denies chest pain).
- See refute.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (assert something is not true): gainsay, contradict, withsay, refute, disclaim
Antonyms
- (disallow): allow
- (assert something is true): confirm, affirm
Derived terms
- deniability
- denier
- justice delayed is justice denied
Related terms
- denial
Translations
Anagrams
- E.D.N.Y., Ynde, dyne
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