Значення

значень: 5
  1. A sentry, watch, or guard.

    Wache, Wachposten, Wächter

    часово́йčasovój, карау́льныйkaraúlʹnyj, охра́нникoxránnik

    вартови́йvartovýj

  2. A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.

    The <xmp> tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally

    Markierung, Schlüsselwort

  3. A sentinel crab.

  4. (атрибутивне)A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).

    sentinel animals can be used to explore endemic diseases.

  5. (застаріле)A private soldier.

Ще визначення
  • a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

Приклади

речень: 4
  1. Did the sentinel see anything that night?

  2. The mountains stand as sentinels.

  3. On a rock which overlooked the track, showing out dark and plain against the sky, there stood a solitary sentinel.

  4. It is illegal to try to go to North Sentinel Island.

    ruПытаться проникнуть на Северный Сентинельский остров незаконно.

Українська
За значеннями 1
a sentry or guard:
Русский
За значеннями 1
a sentry or guard:
Deutsch
За значеннями 2
a sentry or guard:
a unique phrase of characters:

Походження

First attested in the 1570s from Middle French sentinelle (“watch or guard kept by a soldi

First attested in the 1570s from Middle French sentinelle (“watch or guard kept by a soldier”), from Old Italian sentinella, probably from sentina + -ella, from sentire (“perceive, watch, hear”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive by the senses”). See also sense, sentient.

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Форми

множина: sentinels
Однинаsentinel
Множинаsentinels

правильне

Синоніми

синонімів: 6
Близькі за значенням

Спільнокореневі

пов’язаних слів: 6

Дивіться також

сусідні слова
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