Crossword clues for salient
salient
- Important
- Most important way to welcome foreigner
- Most important when backing story books
- Main thoroughfare invaded by visitor from space?
- Conspicuous, prominent
- Conspicuous way to protect a right
- Conspicuous way to involve stranger
- Conspicuous foreigner in street
- Outstanding - it's lean
- Way to capture foreign part of fortification
- Prominent street captivates outsider
- Prominent foreigner seen in street
- Sticking out
- Standing out
- Prominent — in tales (anag)
- Notably significant
- Most noticeable
- Conspicuous
- Pronounced
- Hard to miss
- Noteworthy
- Worth noting
- Standing out prominently
- (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
- Outstanding — it's lean (anag)
- Noticeable and important
- Prominent, as a feature
- Projecting
- Very noticeable
- Vital
- Jetting upward
- Striking
- Jutting out
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salient \Sa"li*ent\, a. (Fort.) A salient angle or part; a projection.
Salient \Sa"li*ent\, a. [L. saliens, -entis, p. pr. of salire to leap; cf. F. saillant. See Sally, n. & v. i..]
Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. ``Frogs and salient animals.''
--Sir T. Browne.-
Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action.
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Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind.
--Bancroft. (Math. & Fort.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to re["e]ntering. See Illust. of Bastion.
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(Her.) Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.
Salient angle. See Salient, a., 4.
Salient polygon (Geom.), a polygon all of whose angles are salient.
Salient polyhedron (Geom.), a polyhedron all of whose solid angles are salient.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "leaping," a heraldic term, from Latin salientem (nominative saliens), present participle of salire "to leap," from PIE root *sel- (4) "to jump" (cognates: Greek hallesthai "to leap," Middle Irish saltraim "I trample," and probably Sanskrit ucchalati "rises quickly").\n
\nIt was used in Middle English as an adjective meaning "leaping, skipping." The meaning "pointing outward" (preserved in military usage) is from 1680s; that of "prominent, striking" first recorded 1840, from salient point (1670s), which refers to the heart of an embryo, which seems to leap, and translates Latin punctum saliens, going back to Aristotle's writings. Hence, the "starting point" of anything.
1828, from salient (adj.).
Wiktionary
a. 1 worthy of note; pertinent or relevant. 2 prominent; conspicuous. 3 (context heraldry usually of a quadruped English) Depicted in a leaping posture. 4 (context often military English) project outwards, pointing outwards. 5 (context obsolete English) Moving by leaps or springs; jumping. 6 (context obsolete English) Shooting out up; springing; projecting. n. (context military English) an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense
WordNet
adj. having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance between parent and child" [syn: outstanding, prominent, spectacular, striking]
(of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees [ant: re-entrant]
represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward) [syn: salient(ip)]
n. (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
Wikipedia
Salient is the weekly students' magazine of the Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association (VUWSA) at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Salient was established in 1938 and originally published in newspaper format, but is now published as a magazine. Salient's style and editorial position can change from year to year due to changes in editors. However, the magazine has generally taken a left-wing stance.
Salient may refer to:
- Salient (geography), part of a discrete territory projecting out of the main portion, bordered by foreign territory on three sides, into which it projects; also called a panhandle
- Salient (heraldry), an adjective describing a heraldic beast in a leaping attitude
- Salient (magazine), Victoria University of Wellington student publication
- Harvard Salient, Harvard University conservative student newspaper
- Salient (territory), a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory
- Salient pole, a salient (i.e., projecting) electromagnetic pole of a field coil
- Salient Software, a utility software company between 1990 and 1992, taken over by Fifth Generation Systems, meanwhile Symantec / Norton
- Salient Arms International an American firearms maker based in Oxnard, California
A salient is an elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.
While similar to a peninsula in shape, a salient is not surrounded by water on three sides and connected to a geographical mainland. Instead, it is delimited by a land border on at least two sides and extends out from the larger geographical body of the administrative unit.
In American English the term panhandle is often used to describe a relatively long and narrow salient, such as the westernmost extension of Florida. Less common descriptors include chimney (if protruding northward, as a chimney does from a roof) and bootheel (if protruding southward, as the heel underneath a boot).
Usage examples of "salient".
British troops began to nibble at the point of the salient on the Ancre which had been created by the battle of the Somme.
Then on past the bend of the Ancre the British and the German positions continued to the Gommecourt salient.
The past lived in her memory as a bright, changeful dream, varying from one pleasure to another, with an ever-shifting background of fair, foreign towns and cities, Kursaals, palaces, salons, gardens, mountains, and lakes, and quiet green nooks of country--all, as it seemed to her, with the power of generalization that seizes on the most salient points, and takes them as types of the whole, shining in sunlight that never clouded, under clear blue skies that never darkened.
Nearing the street in front of the Club Miche, The Shadow picked out salient features.
The last salient point in which the systems of these creatures differed from ours was in what one might have thought a very trivial particular.
Clarendon and his new home near old Goat Hill, sketches of his career and manifold honours, and popular accounts of his salient scientific discoveries were all presented in the principal California dailies, till the public soon felt a sort of reflected pride in the man whose studies of pyemia in India, of the pest in China, and of every sort of kindred disorder elsewhere would soon enrich the world of medicine with an antitoxin of revolutionary importance - a basic antitoxin combating the whole febrile principle at its very source, and ensuring the ultimate conquest and extirpation of fever in all its diverse forms.
Mudge stood next to them, making salient points as Talea chased the apologetic Jon-Tom several times around their tree home.
The programmer never considered the possibility that the relay might fail to close nor was he well informed about the salient electrical characteristics of decaying Blatta Orientalis.
The creation of a general Government, with its three separate and measurably independent departments, happily concluded, with the delegated powers of each distinctly enumerated, the salient question as to the basis of representation in the Congress at once pressed for determination.
Into line in Ypres Salient on high ground between Menin and Zonnebeke Roads -- came under XXII Corps.
For they belong to that weird netherworld of unbiological beings, salient members of which are the chimera, the unicorn, the sphinx, the werewolf, and the hound of the hedges and the sea serpent.
The younger here of our ethereal band And hierarchy of Intelligences, That this thwart Parliament whose moods we watch-- So insular, empiric, un-ideal-- May figure forth in sharp and salient lines To retrospective eyes of afterdays, And print its legend large on History.
All of which brings us back to the way the media handled the story about the shootout at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, and what seems to be the only plausible reason so much of the media left out the salient fact that the students who finally subdued the gunman also had guns.
He sought, above all, any crosscurrents he could detect, hidden, salient, or otherwise.
Instead, their available forces were to concentrate on one smashing blow against the Kursk salient, a segment of the front line that ballooned westward into the German mid-section.