Salient vs Silent - What's the difference?
salient | silent |
Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
Prominent; conspicuous.
* Bancroft
(heraldry, usually of a quadruped) Depicted in a leaping posture.
Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
(obsolete) Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) Shooting out up; springing; projecting.
* Burke
(military) an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense
Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
* 1604 , , Othello , act 5, scene 1:
* 1825 , , Arthur Murphy, The Works of Samuel Johnson , Talboys and Wheeler, page 52:
* 1906 , William Dean Howells and Sidney Dillon Ripley, Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between , Harper & Brothers, page 152:
Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
* Broome
* Milton
Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.
(pronunciation) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.
Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
(technology) Without audio capability.
Hidden, unseen.
Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.
Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.
(uncountable) That which is ; a time of silence.
:* The silent of the night. Shakespeare
A silent movie
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As adjectives the difference between salient and silent
is that salient is worthy of note; pertinent or relevant while silent is free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.As nouns the difference between salient and silent
is that salient is an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense while silent is that which is silent; a time of silence.salient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.
- He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind.
- a lion salient
- a salient angle
- frogs and salient animals
- 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, trivialDerived terms
* salient pointNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* salient poleAnagrams
* ----silent
English
Alternative forms
* scilentAdjective
(en-adj)- How silent is this town!
- What was formerly performed by fleets and armies, by invasions, sieges, and battles, has been of late accomplished by more silent methods.
- The voice of the auctioneer is slow and low ; after a pause, which seems no silenter than the rest of the transaction, he ceases to repeat the bids, and his fish, in the measure of a bushel or so, have gone for a matter of three shillings.
- Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men.
- This new-created world, whereof in hell / Fame is not silent .
- The wind is silent .
- (Parnell)
- (Sir Walter Raleigh)
- The ''e'' is silent in ''fable''.
- Cause silent , virtueless, and dead.
- The Magnavox Odyssey was a silent console.
- a silent''' voter; a '''silent partner
Synonyms
* See also * dumb, mute, quiet, speechless, still, taciturnDerived terms
* silent alarm * silent auction * silent barter * silent butler * silent disco * silent film * silent key * silent number * silent partner * silent majority * Silent Sam * silent service * silent treatment * silent voteNoun
(en noun)citation