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Notable vs Salient - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between notable and salient

is that notable is useful; profitable while salient is shooting out up; springing; projecting.

notable

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at (l).

Alternative forms

* (l)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Useful; profitable.
  • * 1754 , James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae: familiar letters domestic and foreign :
    • Your honourable Uncle Sir Robert Mansel, who is now in the Mediterranean, hath been very notable to me, and I shall ever acknowledge a good part of my Education from him.
  • Prudent; clever; capable; industrious; thrifty.
  • * 1863 , Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sylvia's lovers :
    • Hester looked busy and notable with her gown pinned up behind her, and her hair all tucked away under a clean linen cap; [...]
    Related terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) notable, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished.
  • * Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona :
    • [...] how sayest thou, that my master is become a notable lover?
  • (dated) Capable of being noted; noticeable; plain; evident.
  • * Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona :
    • A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be.
    Antonyms
    * non-notable
    Derived terms
    * notability

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or thing of distinction.
    • Related terms
    * note * of note * noted * notably

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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

    Anagrams

    * ----