salient characteristic

collocation in English

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salient
adjective
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/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/us
/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/
The salient facts about something or qualities of something are the most important things ...
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characteristic
noun[C]
uk
/ˌkær.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/us
/ˌker.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/
a typical or noticeable quality of someone ...
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The mostsalientcharacteristicof his response to criticism was an absolute refusal to concede even the slightest error on his part.
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Onesalientcharacteristicof jazz is that it is a recorded medium.
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Asalientcharacteristicof both projects is that their design history was decidedly influenced by forces from outside the design profession.
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We all know that in most of the schemes undertaken there is onesalientcharacteristicwhich should be reinforced.
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Thissalientcharacteristicis of sufficient familiarity that the sobriquet can become more familiar than the original name.
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Itssalientcharacteristicis the importance it assigns to the laity.
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This is probably the mostsalientcharacteristicof a synthetic instrument.
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Salient characteristics are taste, use and market focus.
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The salient characteristics of everyday sounds are summarised and the section concludes with a succinct review of the main theoretical items presented.
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The third section will fine-tune the previous analyses with a focus on content words because of their salient characteristics in children's speech.
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The salient characteristics of this more communitarian notion of the person are evident.
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Asalientcharacteristicof modernism is self-consciousness.
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In other cases, genetic factors might evoke or select salient characteristics of the social environment prior to the advent of psychopathology.
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It will be useful, however, to review some of the salient characteristics of such expansions here.
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What are the salient characteristics of multimodal discourse in relation to other genres, such as conversations, or written documents, or even electronic media?
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This is due to a limited processing capacity, whereby the child will focus on more salient characteristics of the input, and less on "weaker" or less salient forms.
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Children distinguish roles using language features that index salient characteristics of the ways individuals speak.
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These salient characteristics are speed and fluidity.
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Any given utterance can be traced back to an individual speaker, whose salient characteristics are shown by a set of 'tags' derived from the conversation log.
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One of the salient characteristics of our method of controlling public expenditure in this country is that increases in public expenditure tend to be incremental.
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