SENTINEL

lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket

(noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Sentinel

A ghost town in California.

A town in Oklahoma.

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Etymology

Noun

sentinel (plural sentinels)

A sentry, watch, or guard.

(obsolete) A private soldier.

(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).

Verb

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

(transitive) To watch over as a guard.

(transitive) To post as guard.

(transitive) To post a guard for.

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Source: Wiktionary

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Sen"ti*nel, n. Etym: [F. sentinelle (cf. It. sentinella); probably originally, a litle path, the sentinel's beat,, and a dim. of a word meaning, path; cf. F. sente path. L. semita; and OF. sentine, sentele, senteret, diminutive words. Cf. Sentry.]

1. One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry. The sentinels who paced the ramparts. Macaulay.

2. Watch; guard. [Obs.] "That princes do keep due sentinel." Bacon.

3. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.

Sen"ti*nel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sentineled or Sentinelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Sentineling or Sentinelling.]

1. To watch over like a sentinel. "To sentinel enchanted land." [R.] Sir W. Scott.

2. To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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