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Distill vs Salient - What's the difference?

distill | salient |

As a verb distill

is to subject a substance to distillation.

As an adjective salient is

worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.

As a noun salient is

an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.

distill

English

Alternative forms

* distil (Commonwealth)

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To subject a substance to distillation.
  • (lb) To undergo or be produced by distillation.
  • (lb) To make by means of distillation, especially whisky.
  • (lb) To exude in small drops.
  • :
  • (lb) To impart in small quantities.
  • (lb) To extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.
  • *
  • *:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
  • (lb) To trickle down or fall in small drops; ooze out.
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Soft showers distilled , and suns grew warm in vain.
  • *Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
  • *:The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia.
  • (lb) To be manifested gently or gradually.
  • (lb) To drip or be wet with.

    • Derived terms

    * distill an interface * distill out * distillable * distiller * distillery * distillment

    salient

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
    • The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.
  • Prominent; conspicuous.
  • * Bancroft
    • He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind.
  • (heraldry, usually of a quadruped) Depicted in a leaping posture.
    • a lion salient
  • Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
    • a salient angle
  • (obsolete) Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • frogs and salient animals
  • (obsolete) Shooting out up; springing; projecting.
  • * Burke
    • He had in himself a salient , living spring of generous and manly action.

    Quotations

    {{timeline, 1800s=1878 1898, 1900s=1936}} * 1878 , , Book 2, chapter 5: *: With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called "Nancy's Fancy." * 1898 , Book2, chapter 2: *: The last salient point in which the systems of these creatures differed from ours was in what one might have thought a very trivial particular. * 1936 , : *: Warning me that many of the street signs were down, the youth drew for my benefit a rough but ample and painstaking sketch map of the town's salient features.

    Antonyms

    * (prominent) obscure, trivial

    Derived terms

    * salient point

    Related terms

    * salience * saliency

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense

    • Derived terms

    * salient pole

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