(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.
Sentient
Definition:
(a.) Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.
(n.) One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both record, with power and sentient humanity, the vortex of war in our world today, and the millions these wars scatter and shatter across it, not least to Europe’s shores.
(2) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(3) "The passions are perfectly unknown to her ... the unseen seat of life and the sentient target of death - this Miss Austen ignores."
(4) (Sentient describes the state where partial or total awareness is elicited by stimulation).
(5) Ever since this exhibitionist drivel began, otherwise sentient people have been sobbing into their popcorn about thwarted love and the passing of time.
(6) Long before they tucked into the starters there was something whiffy about the relationship between No 10 and News International: why did the prime minister stand by his PR man long after most sentient people had concluded that his denials of involvement in phone-hacking were risible?
(7) Click here for the Paddington trailer There was a swift online reaction to the still image from the film pictured above, in which Paddington looks less like the harmlessly bumbling bear of Michael Bond's books and more a malevolent creature, disturbingly sentient enough to dress itself in a duffel coat.
(8) Unlike Teletubbies, which featured sentient vacuum cleaners and characters with TV screens on their abdomens, this show doesn't rub our faces in the fact that we are slackly farming our children out to the electric babysitter; instead, it has a faintly folky, storybook quality.
(9) Tagline "Sometimes life's second chances come in small packages" Cool Gel Attacks Photograph: James Mccauley Based on an incident in 2006 where packs of cooling gel were found in rural Thailand and mistaken by some for aliens, Cool Gel Attacks offers a "knee-slapping look" at what might have happened had the gel packs indeed been sentient.
(10) He reinvigorated a minor DC title, Swamp Thing – a sort of sentient bog monster – with his now-familiar penchant for supernatural mysticism, psychedelic prose and adult characterisation.
(11) Central heating alone induced sweating responses and the central temperature thresholds of sweating were inversely related to the ambient (sentient skin) temperatures.
(12) He criticised "materialistic technology" in his eight-minute speech and said greed had "unbalanced the ecosystems, contaminated the environments, caused natural disasters, spread epidemics, induced wars and hence endangered all sentient beings now and in future", according to an official translation of his speech.
(13) What I have chosen as my concern, in the foregoing, is not a rough survey of conceptions of human nature--whether man is good, bad, or indifferent; a rational creature or essentially a sentient one; whether man's nature has ever been the same' or whether 'man makes himself', creatively.
(14) Where mo-cap can add value is for films that attempt to respond to humanity's essential 21st-century passions: our essential loneliness as a sentient species, not mutually exclusive with the terror that we might one day be supplanted at the top of the intelligence tree.
(15) Johnny Depp plays Dr Will Caster, an artificial intelligence researcher who is willing to sacrifice himself to create a sentient machine.
(16) As sentient beings we all know this, but it’s my public duty to remind you of the fact.
(17) It was beyond suppression and therefore beyond any sentient move to wish it away.
(18) The Matrix dissolved around me, still a virgin, and barely sentient.
(19) Let's just settle down quietly – pushing meddling politicos out of the action – and decide, as sentient stakeholders, what we want to do next.
(20) From sentient marine mammals to apparently downed airliners and the drastic effects of climate change, the world's oceans, and what we do to them, may be the last great battleground.