different between sentient vs sentinel

English

Etymology

From Latin senti?ns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of senti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?n.ti.?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?n.?(i.)?nt/

Adjective

sentient (comparative more sentient, superlative most sentient)

1. Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.

   Synonym: sensate

2. Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.

   Antonym: insensate

3. (chiefly science fiction) Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:self-aware

Translations

See also

• conscient

Further reading

• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007) , “sentient”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN, pages 180–181
• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2021) , “sentient adj.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.

Noun

sentient (plural sentients)

1. Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
2. (chiefly science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sentient

References

Further reading

• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2021) , “sentient n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.

Latin

Verb

sentient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of senti?

English

Etymology

1570s, from Middle French sentinelle, from Old Italian sentinella (perhaps via a notion of "perceive, watch", compare Italian sentire (“to feel, hear, smell”)), from Latin senti? (“feel, perceive by the senses”). See sense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?nt?n?l/

Noun

sentinel (plural sentinels)

1. A sentry, watch, or guard.
   • 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     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.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Empire

     that princes do keep due sentinel

2. (obsolete) A private soldier.
   • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 33:

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

3. (computer science) a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way; a keyword.

4. A sentinel crab.
5. (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).

Translations

Verb

sentinel (third-person singular simple present sentinels, present participle (US) sentineling or (UK) sentinelling, simple past and past participle (US) sentineled or (UK) sentinelled)

1. (transitive) To watch over as a guard.

   He sentineled the north wall.

2. (transitive) To post as guard.

   He sentineled him on the north wall.

3. (transitive) To post a guard for.

   He sentineled the north wall with just one man.

   • 1873, Harper's New Monthly Magazine (volume 46, page 562)

     The old-fashioned stoop, with its suggestive benches on either side, lay solitary and silent in the moonlight; the garden path, weedily overgrown since father's death, and sentineled here and there with ragged hollyhock, lay quiet and dew-laden […]

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• lenients