Sentinel

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

26 more languages

العربيةالحارسحارسخَفِيرغفير+ 1 more

Българскиохранявам

Bosanskiстражар

Catalàsentinella

Češtinahlídkastráž

Cymraeggwarchodwr

Ελληνικάσκοπόςφρουρός

Suomivahtivahtiavartijavartioidavartiomiesvartiosotilas+ 3 more

Gàidhligcathairfreiceadan

Galegosentinela

עבריתזקיף

हिन्दीपासबानप्रहरी

Hrvatskiстражар

Italianosentinella

日本語歩哨番兵

한국어감시병보초병초병

Kurdîsembol

Latinacustosexcubitorpraesesvigil+ 1 more

Македонскистражар

Nederlandswacht

Polskistrażnikwachtarzwartownik

Portuguêssentinelavigiavigiar

Русскийкараульныйохранникстражчасовой+ 1 more

Српскистражар

Türkçegözcükoruyucunöbetçisembolsimge+ 2 more

Українськавартови́йохоронятистраж

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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