sentinel
See also: Sentinel
English
Etymology
1570s, from Middle French sentinelle, from Old Italian sentinella (perhaps via a notion of "perceive, watch", compare Italian sentire (“to feel, hear, smell”)), from Latin sentiō (“feel, perceive by the senses”). See sense.
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Noun
sentinel (plural sentinels)
- A sentry or guard.
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- They promised faithfully to bear their confinement with patience, and were very thankful that they had such good usage as to have provisions and light left them; for Friday gave them candles (such as we made ourselves) for their comfort; and they did not know but that he stood sentinel over them at the entrance.
- Macaulay
- the sentinels who paced the ramparts
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- (computer science) a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way; a keyword.
- The <xmp> tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally.
- Watch; guard.
- Francis Bacon
- that princes do keep due sentinel
- Francis Bacon
- A sentinel crab.
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A sentry or guard
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Verb
sentinel (third-person singular simple present sentinels, present participle (US) sentineling or (UK) sentinelling, simple past and past participle (US) sentineled or (UK) sentinelled)
- (transitive) To watch over as a guard.
- He sentineled the north wall.
- (transitive) To post as guard.
- He sentineled him on the north wall.
- (transitive) To post a guard for.
- He sentineled the north wall with just one man.
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