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sentinel
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)
- 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
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- (obsolete) A private soldier.
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 33:
- “I will not permit the poorest centinel to be treated with injustice.”
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 33:
- (computer science) a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way; a keyword.
- A sentinel crab.
- (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)
- (transitive) To watch over as a guard.
- He sentineled the north wall.
- (transitive) To post as guard.
- He sentineled him on the north wall.
- (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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Anagrams
- lenients
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conductor
English
Alternative forms
- conductour (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French conductour, from Old French conduitor, from Latin conductor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?d?kt?/
Noun
conductor (plural conductors, feminine conductress or conductrix)
- One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
- (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
- A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers
- (physics) Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
- (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
- 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
- If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.
- 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
- A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
- (architecture) A leader.
Antonyms
- non-conductor (3), nonconductor (3), insulator (3)
Derived terms
- conductor rail
- lightning conductor
Related terms
- conduct
- semiconductor, dielectric
Translations
See also
- ticket inspector
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin conductor, conduct?rem (“contractor, employer”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /kon.duk?to/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kun.duk?to/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kon.duk?to?/
Adjective
conductor (feminine conductora, masculine plural conductors, feminine plural conductores)
- driving
- conducting
Noun
conductor m (plural conductors)
- driver
- (physics) conductor
Related terms
- conduir
Latin
Etymology
From cond?c? (“I lead”) +? -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon?duk.tor/, [k?n??d??kt??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon?duk.tor/, [k?n??d?ukt??r]
Noun
conductor m (genitive conduct?ris, feminine conductr?x); third declension
- employer, entrepreneur
- contractor
- (physics) conductor (of heat, electricity etc)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- conductor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- conductor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conductor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- conductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Noun
conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)
- Obsolete form of condutor.
Romanian
Etymology
From French conducteur, from Latin conductor.
Noun
conductor n (plural conductori)
- conductor
- driver
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin conductor, conductorem (“contractor, employer”). Cognate with English conductor.
Noun
conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)
- driver, motorist
- conductor (transmitter of electricity, heat, light or sound)
- (Argentina, Uruguay) presenter; host (of television show)
Derived terms
Related terms
- conducir
See also
- chófer
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