What's the difference between germane and salient?

Germane


Definition:

  • (a.) Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
  • (2) He said Germany was Russia’s most important economic partner, and pointed out that 35% of German gas originated in Russia.
  • (3) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
  • (4) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
  • (5) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
  • (6) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
  • (7) She lived and worked in the German capital and since 2014 had been employed by a logistics company there, according to her Facebook profile.
  • (8) A text generation produces acceptable German reports.
  • (9) We have done well in our last games against them but this German team is much better than the previous sides we have faced.
  • (10) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
  • (11) The Italian data seem to fall within the standard of the American (1979) and West German (1978) surveys.
  • (12) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
  • (13) "We estimate that German arrivals will be down by about 25% by the end of the year."
  • (14) In 2001, they filed a $4bn (£2.17bn) lawsuit against the government and two German firms in the US.
  • (15) The European commission has three official "procedural languages": German, French and English.
  • (16) "If Germans start spending more, Germany could start importing more from the periphery [worst hit by the debt crisis]," he said.
  • (17) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
  • (18) The presentation of the phagocytic theory of immunity, proposed by Metchnikoff in 1883, was immediately attacked by German pathologists and microbiologists.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Although my primary degree is from a German university, I did my postgraduate and general practice training in the UK.
  • (20) Christoph Schäublin said it had “triggered no feelings of triumph” that the of the Kunstmuseum Bern was to take on the artworks that were recently discovered in the home of German recluse Cornelius Gurlitt.

Salient


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
  • (v. i.) Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
  • (v. i.) Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
  • (v. i.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.
  • (v. i.) Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.
  • (a.) A salient angle or part; a projection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) According to this explanation, aspects of the situation are phenomenologically more salient for actors, whereas characteristics of the actor and his behavior are more salient for observers.
  • (2) The Nurses Evaluation Rating Scale (NERS) consists of 16 items designed to capture salient dimensions of psychopathology and nursing care requirements for psychiatric patients.
  • (3) Salient features are reviewed, mostly complications and malignant degeneration.
  • (4) The salient features of 24 cases of AIDS reported in Japan were summarized.
  • (5) This letter-writer argues that the salient action of mood elevation is a result of the supplemental pyridoxine (vitamin B) which ameliorates the deficiency induced by oral contraceptive use that leads to depression resulting from inhibition of synthesis of biogenic amines in the central nervous system.
  • (6) The cut of the skin makes two flaps suppressing the navel which is generally salient.
  • (7) Both Tony Blair and David Cameron saw that one salient way for an opposition leader to convince the country that he can be trusted with power is to demonstrate that he can reform his own party.
  • (8) Using an objectively-calibrated 2-dimensional search coil, we measured saccades in response to salient, unpredictable targets.
  • (9) A case of ours showing the salient features and management of a subacute cervical spinal cord abscess is also reported.
  • (10) A salient feature of the sequence of protein SCMKB-IIIB3 is three consecutive cysteine residues.
  • (11) The salient aspects of this and the three other reported cases are briefly reviewed, and the pathway of distant dissemination, resulting from venous permeation at the primary site, is emphasized.
  • (12) Salient clinical findings in this case include DIC associated with extensive ecchymosis and subsequent gangrene of the skin, thrombotic complications that began on the third day of life.
  • (13) The urethral mesenchyme showed the most salient changes.
  • (14) The salient elements of the methods are extraction of the residues as the free amine with benzene, rapid cleanup on an alumina column, and quantification of the free amine in methanol via SPF.
  • (15) The salient findings in myotonic dystrophy were ultrastructural changes of the lymphatic endothelial cells and the fibrillar elements that surround the lymphatic wall.
  • (16) The salient clinical features and a description of their pathogenesis are summarized.
  • (17) 6.44am BST My colleague Michael Safi is in Icac today and makes a salient point - O'Farrell is not suspected of acting corruptly .
  • (18) Salient features of these linkages are discussed, as is the relationship between the data presented here and previously published genetic and cytogenetic data.
  • (19) Starting with a critique of the DSM-III-R description of the antisocial personality disorder, the author reviews some salient contributions to the concept of the antisocial personality disorder derived from descriptive, sociologic, and psychoanalytic viewpoints.
  • (20) Several salient characteristics of the practitioners were clarified such as the process of becoming a healer, referral practices, types of disorders treated, and treatment of the traditional folk illnesses.