Salient is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SALIENT in dictionary:

VERB:
• Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
• Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
• Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
• Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.
• Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.
NOUN:
• an outward-pointing angle, esp. of a fortification or line of defences
• a piece of land or section of fortification that juts out to form an angle.
• an outward bulge in a line of military attack or defence
• (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
• projecting part of a front line
ADJECTIVE:
• strikingly conspicuous; prominent
• most noticeable or important
• prominent; conspicuous
• (of an angle) pointing outwards.
• (of an animal) standing on its hind legs with the forepaws raised, as if leaping.
• prominent, noticeable
• A salient angle or part; a projection.
• having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
• (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees
• represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the part of a fortification projecting closest to the enemy

Words related to SALIENT

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How to use SALIENT in a sentence

• This work was a salient, that is to say a work whose centre is advanced, the two sides meeting there at an angle.
• There is a good deal more trench before we reach the village which forms the head of a salient in the French line.
• The paper brings together in a convenient form the sections and salient facts concerning many dams.
• There were times, in those moods of concentration, when sheer brute power seemed his most salient characteristic.
• Most successful across the first salient, then, suddenly, I saw we were approaching a wide ditch.
• The Germans were directing their second great effort against the Salient.
• He preserved the salient features of Buonarroti in old age.
• Bump he went against the ceiling, and I knew then why he was all over white on the more salient curves and angles of his person.
• In one direction the Victorian age achieved a salient and momentous advance.
• George Sainsbury, the editor, was a master at catching the salient points of a manuscript.
• Later the battalion held a front line position at Monthois, and it finally formed a salient in the line of the 9th French Army Corps.
• A great salient of a hill overhung it, and on the near side a fir wood crept close.
• The changes of the popular Christian belief in regard to three salient points have been especially striking.
• It traces a soul through ten or twelve births, giving the salient points of its history in each.
• With the reduction of the Marne salient we could look forward to the concentration of our divisions in our own zone.
• The mere recital of the most salient features of that sinister theme would suffice to fill a volume.
• We are in a sort of valley, and in the middle of the valley is a slight rise on which the village of La Boiselle once existed, and which now forms the German salient.
• On April 7th, a bright and lovely spring morning, the whole Division began its fateful journey to Ypres and marched off to Cassel, about thirty miles behind the Salient.
• His speech, lasting many hours, was an able and exhaustive discussion of the salient questions involved in the trial.
• The features seemed suddenly sharpened, almost horribly salient.
• The presiding and working faculty of a common English inn distinguishes it by another salient characteristic from the hotels of other countries.
• The great window, which is the most salient feature in the common picture, is a magnificent piece of work in stone, twenty-four feet in height and sixteen in breadth.
• One of the salient points of his character was the search for adventures and a love of romance.
• Then, from every point in the great Salient of Ypres, the British guns replied.
• Possibly they had been informed by their Intelligence Department that Trades Unionism, had ensured that a thoroughly inadequate supply of shells was to hand in the Salient.
• A more salient fact was that this particular letter accompanied with a greeting card of congratulations was a pensive deliberation on their relationship.
• One point in the Confederate line, called the Salient, was taken and retaken over and over again.
• These Acts form a body of legislation by themselves, of which I need refer only to a few salient characteristics.
• One of the salient points of this Roberts system is that the operator always has control of the line.
• There is some salient feature or trick of manner which first attracts and then holds our attention.
• But the outline, in all its salient angles, was perfectly indicated.

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