sentinel

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Noun

sentinel (plural sentinels)

1. A sentry 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.

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

   The <nowiki> tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally.

Translations

A sentry or guard

Czech: hlídka (cs) f. Dutch: wacht (nl) m. Finnish: vartija (fi), vahti (fi) French: factionnaire (fr) m., sentinelle (fr) f. German: Wache (de) f., Wachposten (de) m.

Hungarian: őrszem (hu) Scottish Gaelic: freiceadan (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: стра̀жа̄р (sh) m. Roman: stràžār (sh) m. Spanish: guarda (es) m., centinela (es) m.

a unique phrase of characters

Finnish: vahti (fi)

Verb

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

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.

Translations

To watch over something as a guard

Finnish: vahtia (fi), vartioida (fi)

French: regarde (fr)