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sentinel
[ sen-tn-l ]
noun
- a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching:
The cats were the sentinels of the house, patrolling constantly for rodents, dogs, and other invaders.
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- a soldier stationed as a guard to challenge all comers and prevent a surprise attack:
Lincoln refused to make his home mansion a garrison during the Civil War, but plain-clothes sentinels did patrol the property
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- Digital Technology. tag 1( def 9a ).
- Medicine/Medical. an indication or mark that a disease is present or prevalent:
New viruses in the wastewater can be used as sentinels of future outbreaks.
verb (used with object)
- to watch over or guard as a sentinel:
This monument sentinels each soldier's grave as a shrine.
adjective
- Medicine/Medical. relating to or being an indication of a disease's presence or prevalence:
Pregnant women attending prenatal appointments serve as a sentinel population for the prevalence of malaria in the region.
The sentinel lymph nodes are the first lymph nodes that the cancer cells reach if they spread.
sentinel
/ ˈɛԳɪə /
noun
- a person, such as a sentry, assigned to keep guard
- computing a character used to indicate the beginning or end of a particular block of information
verb
- to guard as a sentinel
- to post as a sentinel
- to provide with a sentinel
Other yvlog Forms
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- ·پ·Ա· noun
- ܲ··پ·Ա adjective
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yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of sentinel1
Example Sentences
“Hardly a man takes a half hour’s nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, ‘What’s the news?’ as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels.”
“The workers, the cats, and the bulk milk samples are the best sentinels for early dairy herd diagnoses,” he said.
The rate at which flu tests returned positive results at the state’s clinical sentinel labs surged to 27.8% for the week ending Feb. 1, the most recent for which complete data are available.
The Hollywood sign stands sentinel above Los Angeles, watching as embers dance through the January night like wayward stars.
The delta smelt has been called a “sentinel species,” meaning that its health signals the condition of its ecosystem — and the signal it has flashed is alarming.
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