What's the difference between dominate and rule?

Dominate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To predominate over; to rule; to govern.
  • (v. i.) To be dominant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
  • (2) Brilliant, old-fashioned speech, from the days before teleprompters became all-dominant.
  • (3) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
  • (4) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
  • (5) In a control study an inert stereoisomer, d-propranolol, did not block the ocular dominance shift.
  • (6) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
  • (7) The dilemmas faced by the genetic counsellor are discussed in this variable autosomal dominant condition.
  • (8) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
  • (9) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
  • (10) Right hemisphere inactivation caused a decrease in the frequency of lateral hypothalamus self-stimulation, whereas with left hemisphere inactivation it increased, which testifies to right hemisphere dominance in self-stimulation reaction.
  • (11) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
  • (12) Tumorigenesis is a multistep process involving mutations of dominantly acting proto-oncogenes and mutations and loss-of-function mutations of tumor suppressor genes.
  • (13) In-vivo data are limited primarily to dominant lethal studies in rats and some in-vivo alkaline elution results.
  • (14) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
  • (15) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
  • (16) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
  • (17) Four fractions enriched, respectively, in plasma membrane (PM), smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER), rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), and mitochondria were isolated from estrogen-dominated rat myometrium.
  • (18) The effect of the mutation for white belly spot controlled by the dominant gene W on spermatogenesis in mice was examined by experimental cryptorchidism and its surgical reversal.
  • (19) The controversy about "fasting girls" and the all-dominating diagnosis of neurasthenia may explain the delay in the American interest in the new disorder.
  • (20) Normally, the small longitudinal (arterioles to venules) gradient of microvascular and perimicrovascular pressures is not a major concern, but in nonuniform disease processes, such as microembolism, longitudinal inhomogeneity, and parallel inhomogeneity are dominant.

Rule


Definition:

  • (a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket.
  • (a.) Uniform or established course of things.
  • (a.) Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.
  • (a.) Ordibary course of procedure; usual way; comon state or condition of things; as, it is a rule to which there are many exeptions.
  • (a.) Conduct in general; behavior.
  • (a.) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
  • (a.) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
  • (a.) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root.
  • (a.) A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but "man" forms its plural "men", and is an exception to the rule.
  • (a.) A straight strip of wood, metal, or the like, which serves as a guide in drawing a straight line; a ruler.
  • (a.) A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.
  • (a.) A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
  • (a.) A composing rule. See under Conposing.
  • (n.) To control the will and actions of; to exercise authority or dominion over; to govern; to manage.
  • (n.) To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive.
  • (n.) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
  • (n.) To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court.
  • (n.) To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.
  • (v. i.) To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority; -- often followed by over.
  • (v. i.) To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.
  • (v. i.) To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
  • (2) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (3) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (4) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
  • (5) Titre in newborn was as a rule lower than the corresponding titre of mother.
  • (6) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
  • (7) The exception to this rule is a cyst which can be safely aspirated under controlled conditions.
  • (8) This situation should lead to discuss preventive rules.
  • (9) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
  • (10) Paul Johnson, the IFS director, said: “Osborne’s new fiscal charter is much more constraining than his previous fiscal rules.
  • (11) Models with a C8-symmetry and D4-symmetry can be ruled out.
  • (12) CEA and bacterial antigens were not detected in the material, and the presence of alpha-fetoprotein, HLA and blood-group antigens may be ruled out on account of their respective molecular weights.
  • (13) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (14) In fact, if the roundtable operated by the rules it publishes, most of its members might have been thrown out.
  • (15) Injections of l-amphetamine were not effective, ruling out non-specific effects of pH, osmolarity and the like and also ruling out noradrenergic actions as explanations of the behavioral effects.
  • (16) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
  • (17) The prediction rule performed well when used on a test set of data (area, 0.76).
  • (18) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
  • (19) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
  • (20) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.