Salient vs Vanguard - What's the difference?
salient | vanguard |
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
The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.
(by extension) The person(s) at the forefront of any group or movement.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=4 * '>citation
As nouns the difference between salient and vanguard
is that salient is an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense while vanguard is the leading units at the front of an army or fleet.As an adjective salient
is worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.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
* ----vanguard
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}