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- Dictionarysentinel/ˈsɛntɪnl/
noun
- 1. a soldier or guard whose job is to stand and keep watch: "soldiers stood sentinel with their muskets"
- 2. an indicator of the presence of disease: "a sentinel surveillance programme for influenza"
verb
- 1. station a soldier or guard by (a place) to keep watch: "a wide course had been roped off and sentinelled with police"
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Examples of sentinel in a Sentence. Noun a lone sentinel kept watch over the fort. Recent Examples on the Web. Noun. Whole trees—ancient, massive sentinels that might weigh as much as 60 tons—shed into the water, sometimes hundreds at a time.
SENTINEL definition: 1. a person employed to guard something: 2. Sentinel is also used in the names of some newspapers…. Learn more.
Sentinel definition: a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching. See examples of SENTINEL used in a sentence.
A sentinel is a guard, a lookout, a person keeping watch. It's often a soldier, but not always. If you're watching a pot, waiting for it to boil, you're standing sentinel over it — and incidentally, it won't boil until you leave.
noun. 1. a person, such as a sentry, assigned to keep guard. 2. computing. a character used to indicate the beginning or end of a particular block of information. verb Word forms: -nels, -nelling, -nelled, US -nels, -neling, -neled (transitive) 3. to guard as a sentinel. 4. to post as a sentinel. 5. to provide with a sentinel.
1. a person, such as a sentry, assigned to keep guard. 2. (Computer Science) computing a character used to indicate the beginning or end of a particular block of information. vb ( tr) , -nels, -nelling or -nelled. 3. to guard as a sentinel. 4. to post as a sentinel. 5. to provide with a sentinel.
Definition of sentinel noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Noun. Verb. Filter. noun. sentinels. A person or animal set to guard a group; specif., a sentry. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. (computer science) A unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way; a keyword.
sentinel meaning, definition, what is sentinel: a sentry: Learn more.
Meaning & use. 1.a. 1579–. = sentry n.1 2. to stand sentinel (rarely passive to be set sentinel ). † forlorn sentinel, = † sentinel perdu, perdu sentinel: see perdu adj. A.1. [The phrases noted above are imitated from French .] 1579. [The Scout Master] ought in placing of his night Watches or Sentinels, to vse great consideration.
