salient

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For more than a year this salient was the home of the Canadian soldier and Langemarck, St. Julien, Hill 60, St. Eloi, Hooge, and a host of other names in this sector, have been emblazoned, in letters of fire, on his escutcheon.

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  1. adjective Projecting or jutting beyond a line or surface; protruding.
  2. adjective Strikingly conspicuous; prominent. See Synonyms at noticeable.
  3. adjective Springing; jumping: salient tree toads.
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  • The latter point is the most salient, which is why the impact of —  The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
  • Pfaff also references one of the most salient -- and almost universally ignored -- facts about the current crisis: Washington's direct hand in creating it: —  Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news
  • Tel Aviv / Gaza - A unilateral ceasefire declared by Israel in the Gaza Strip was "fragile" and Israel would respond "without hesitation" if its troops in the salient were attacked, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday morning. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • This helps the audience focus on the salient issues and understand the perspective from which one is arguing. charts and visual aids can help, of course, but - and here's the key thing - only if they illustrate something relevant about the point you're making —  Think Progress
  • While he may ask questions that are salient, his manner is offensive, particularly when he takes well-planned rhetoric and surprises someone with it and subsequently edits the material to vilify the interviewee. —  Dealbreaker
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  1. Latin saliēns, salient-, present participle of salīre, to leap; see sel- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. An altered form, to suit the L. spelling, of earlier saliant (in heraldry), *saillant, from French saillant, from Latin salien(t-)s, present participle of salire, leap, spring forth (later Italian salire = Spanish salir = Portuguese sahir = Provencal salir, salhir, sallir = French saillir, later English obsolete sail), = Greek ἅλλεσθαι, leap (later English halter, etc.). From the same Latin verb are ult. English sail, assail (sail), sally, assault, sault, saltation, saltier, exult, insult, result, desultory, resilient, salmon, etc.
 

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