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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 […]
Translations
Anagrams
- lenients
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sentine
English
Etymology
Latin sentina (“bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs”): compare French sentine.
Noun
sentine (plural sentines)
- (obsolete) A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
- This alonely I can say grossly, and as in a sum, of the which all we (our hurt is the more) have experience, the devil to be a stinking sentine of all vices; a foul filthy channel of all mischiefs
References
sentine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- enseint, intense, tennesi, tennies
Italian
Noun
sentine f
- plural of sentina
Anagrams
- intense
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