Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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salient

/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/ adjective, noun

Forms salients

  1. adjective Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant. “The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.”
  2. adjective Prominent; conspicuous.
  3. adjective (heraldry, usually of a quadruped) Depicted in a leaping posture. “a lion salient”
  4. adjective (often military) Projecting outwards, pointing outwards. “a salient angle”
  5. adjective (obsolete) Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.
  6. adjective (obsolete) Shooting or springing out; projecting.
  7. adjective (geometry) Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
  8. noun (military) An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
  9. noun (geography) A protrusion of the administrative borders of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state into another geopolitical entity, generally of the same administrative level.
  10. noun (geology) An overall-convex, protruding section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.

Synonyms

pertinent relevant applicable apposite apt ad rem well-placed felicitous germane in point material on point on-topic to the point valid attention-grabbing flashy high-profile conspicuous eye-catching outstanding prominent spectacular striking

Antonyms

obscure trivial recess re-entrant

Etymology

The heraldic sense “leaping” and the sense “projecting outward” are borrowed from Latin salientem, the accusative form of saliēns (“springing, leaping”) (whence -ent), present participle of saliō (“leap, spring”, verb). The senses “prominent” and “pertinent” are relatively recent, and derive from the phrase salient point, which is a calque of the Latin punctum saliēns, a translation of Aristotle's term for the embryonal heart visible in (opened) eggs, which he thought seemed to move already. Compare also the German calque der springende Punkt.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne.
  2. adjective Shooting out up; springing; projecting.
  3. adjective A salient angle or part; a projection.

Etymology [L. saliens, -entis, p.pr. of salire to leap; cf. F. saillant. See Sally, n. & v. i..]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “salient”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details