sentinel
A sentry, watch, or guardA sentry, watch, or guard.
» Did the sentinel see anything that night?
Meaning
5 sensesA sentry, watch, or guard.
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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
A sentinel crab.
(attributive)A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
sentinel animals can be used to explore endemic diseases.
(obsolete)A private soldier.
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
Examples
4 sentencesDid the sentinel see anything that night?
The mountains stand as sentinels.
On a rock which overlooked the track, showing out dark and plain against the sky, there stood a solitary sentinel.
It is illegal to try to go to North Sentinel Island.
ruПытаться проникнуть на Северный Сентинельский остров незаконно.
Translations
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Origin
First attested in the 1570s from Middle French sentinelle (“watch or guard kept by a soldiFirst 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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