Meaning of Sentinel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A place in the United States:
2. An unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona.
3. A sentry, watch, or guard.
4. A ghost town in Fresno County, California.
5. A private soldier.
   obsolete
6. An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri.
7. A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.
8. A town in Washita County, Oklahoma.
9. A sentinel crab.
10. A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
    attributive

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“the sentinels who paced the ramparts”

“that princes do keep due sentinel”

““I will not permit the poorest centinel to be treated with injustice.””

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

“[…] a sentinel value that indicates a missing entry.”

“sentinel animals can be used to explore endemic diseases.”

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