(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.
Striking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strike
() a. & n. from Strike, v.
(a.) Affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible; impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
(2) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(3) The amplitudes of the a-wave and the 01 decreased in dose-dependent manners, but their changes were less striking than those of the 01 latency.
(4) A striking feature of BEN is the familial occurrence of the disease.
(5) What is striking is the comprehensive and strategic approach they have.
(6) The most striking feature of some industrialized countries is a dramatic reduction of the prevalence of dental caries among school-aged children.
(7) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
(8) All aircraft exited the strike areas safely.” Earlier, residents living near the Mosul dam told the Associated Press the area was being targeted by air strikes.
(9) It’s not to punish the public, it’s to save the NHS and its people.” Another commenter added: “Of course they should strike.
(10) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
(11) I believe that what we need is a nonviolent national general strike of the kind that has been more common in Europe than here.
(12) Striking and consistent differences were found in the levels of acceptor activity in different tissues from both groups; these levels corresponded to their sensitivity to tumorigenesis by alkylating agents.
(13) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
(14) The results show that in both viral DNAs cleavage occurs at the origin and at one additional site which shows striking sequence homology with the origin region.
(15) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(16) The most striking homology was to yeast SEC7 in the central domain of the gene (57% identical over 466 bp) and also the protein level (42% identical amino acids; 39% conserved amino acids).
(17) Figures from 228 organisations, of which 154 are acute hospital trusts, show that 2,077 inpatient procedures have been cancelled due to the two-day strike alongside 3,187 day case operations and procedures.
(18) Striking features were non-atherosclerotic stenosis with negative Sudan III, seen in the ICA less than 200 mu in diameter of almost all the hearts of stages II and III rabbits.
(19) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
(20) The most striking differences were observed on the factors: Psychopathic deviation, Mania, Schizophrenia greater than controls and social introversion lower than controls.