Salience: alternatives and connections

a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom

The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edg…

The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.

A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.

To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]

to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.

A sudden springing or leaping out.

A simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge.

To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.

The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the v…

To help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or assist.

A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.

An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.

The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.

A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.

an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization

Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forw…