dominance vs muscle

dominance and muscle both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dominance	Yes	No	No	No
muscle	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, muscle is a hyponym of dominance; that is, muscle is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dominance:

dominance: the power or right to give orders or make decisions
muscle: authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way)

Other hyponyms of dominance include power of appointment, carte blanche, command, imperium, lordship, sovereignty.

dominance (noun)	muscle (noun)
the power or right to give orders or make decisions	possessing muscular strength
superior development of one side of the body	authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way)
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	one of the contractile organs of the body
the state that exists when one person or group has power over another	animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells
	a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard

dominance (verb)	muscle (verb)
	make one's way by force