Englishfor English speakers
dominance
—
noun
(= laterality)
superior development of one side of the body
—
noun
the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her
—
noun
the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not
—
noun
(= authority, authorization, authorisation, potency)
the power or right to give orders or make decisions
he has the authority to issue warrants
deputies are given authorization to make arrests
a place of potency in the state
order
Noun
—
Order is when things are where they should be.
I need to take some time to put my things in order.
—
The order of some things means which thing is first, which one is second, which one is last, etc.
The children will take turns in order of age.
order
Verb
—
To order something is to ask someone to sell it to you.
At the restaurant, she ordered chicken and potatoes.
—
To order someone to do something is to tell the person that they must do it.
The father ordered his children to be quiet.