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The Meaning of sentinel
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(n.) 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.
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(n.) Watch; guard.
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(n.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.
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(v. t.) To watch over like a sentinel.
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(v. t.) To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.
Synonyms
lookout
,
lookout man
,
sentry
,
watch
,
spotter
,
scout
,
picket
Rhymes
vocational
,
seasonal
,
dorsispinal
,
educational
,
criminal
,
recessional
,
confrontational congregational
,
binational
,
compositional
,
multinational
,
co-ordinal
,
thiophenol
,
conventional
,
illustrational
,
paginal
,
affinal
,
transnational
,
traditional
,
terminal
,
anginal
,
generational gravitational
,
pentachlorophenol
,
aberrational
,
fictional
,
abdominal
,
serotinal
,
eugenol
,
institutional
,
quasi-vocational
,
ureterointestinal
,
disproportional
,
isoclinal
,
anaclinal
,
directional
,
involutional
,
provisional
,
nominal
,
passional
,
rotational
,
hexagonal
,
attitudinal
,
decagonal
,
preterminal
,
archidiaconal
,
coeducational
,
inspirational
,
jurisdictional
,
inflectional
,
agnominal
,
butanol
,
original
,
periclinal
,
foundational
,
unexceptional
,
multinominal
,
pleonal
,
informational
,
hendecagonal
,
sectional
,
invitational
,
equational
,
trunnel
,
intentional
,
divisional
,
occasional
,
constitutional
,
nutritional
,
isochronal
,
ordinal
,
benedictional
,
regional
,
bidirectional
,
professional
,
national
,
confessional
,
quasi-traditional
,
transitional
,
nontraditional
,
optional
,
villanelle
,
juvenile
,
unidirectional
,
frictional
,
sulfonyl
,
collisional
,
bunnell
,
conditional
,
orthogonal
,
chloranil
,
testudinal
,
improvisational
,
four-dimensional
,
congregational
,
heptagonal
,
chordotonal
,
acetylmethylcarbinol
,
unsensational
,
medicinal
,
congressional
,
hexylresorcinol
,
binominal
,
tridimensional
,
polygonal
,
dunnell
,
unoriginal
,
juvenal
,
cognominal
,
prevocational
,
geosynclinal
,
instructional
,
bifunctional
,
gunnel
,
orcinol
,
tetragonal
,
cantonal
,
unconventional
,
omnidirectional
,
cataclinal
,
nitrophenol
,
intergenerational
,
metanitrophenol
,
ethynyl
,
untraditional
,
praenominal
,
exceptional
,
turbinal
,
subterminal
,
chunnel
,
ammonal
,
gunnell
,
isopropanol
,
devotional
,
ethchlorvynol
,
investigational organizational
,
urinal
,
intraabdominal
,
biphenyl
,
discretional
,
disciplinal
,
correctional
,
trunnell
,
gravitational
,
ideational
,
patronal
,
dimensional
,
carbinol
,
subordinal
,
brunell
,
l-arterenol
,
unprofessional
,
latitudinal
,
imaginal
,
motivational navigational
,
dodecylphenol
,
synclinal
,
isogonal
,
liminal
,
sulfonal
,
chlorospinel
,
emotional
,
funnell
,
operational
,
levarterenol
,
lionel
,
obsessional
,
diethylaminoethanol
,
methenyl
,
rational
,
sentinel
,
projectional
,
isocheimenal
,
runnel
,
sulfinyl
,
recreational
,
ravonelle
,
visional
,
concessional
,
longitudinal
,
luminal
,
salicional
,
superregional
,
intranational
,
unnational
,
processional professional
,
unconstitutional
,
meridional
,
nonprofessional
,
vaticinal
,
pronominal
,
organelle
,
gymnorhinal
,
presentational
,
phenylcarbinol
,
unemotional
,
funnel
,
notional
,
octagonal
,
nacional
,
diagonal
,
dysfunctional
,
dimethylcarbinol
,
internatonal
,
subdiaconal
,
prenominal
,
tripersonal
,
adnominal
,
umbonal
,
relational
,
gastrointestinal
,
retinal
,
diaconal
,
finite-dimensional
,
precessional
,
petronel
,
criterional
,
geanticlinal
,
indophenol
,
additional
,
submarginal
,
tunnel
,
processional
,
germinal
,
munnell
,
truth-functional
,
cerebrospinal
,
supranational
,
proportional
,
aubanel
,
suprarational
,
sensational
,
cacuminal
,
altitudinal
,
tunnell
,
conformational
,
unintentional
,
tegminal
,
extraprofessional
,
interpersonal
,
viminal
,
hunnell kuhnle
,
factional
,
computational
,
impersonal
,
equanil
,
marginal
,
fluxional
,
dodecagonal
,
connotational
,
multidimensional
,
chevronel
,
septentrional
,
aboriginal
,
libidinal
,
chlorphenol
,
situational transformational
,
irrotational
,
arsenal
,
cyclonal
,
unipersonal
,
phenomenal
,
matronal
,
irrational
,
doctrinal
,
diphenyl
,
depositional
,
staminal
,
mangonel
,
affectional
,
fractional
,
functional
,
promotional
,
vicinal
,
occupational
,
chlorophenol
,
centroclinal
,
monoclinal
,
inframarginal
,
carbanil
,
pantonal
,
denominational
,
virginal
,
fontanelle
,
supraliminal
,
trigeminal
,
metachronal
,
multidirectional
,
declensional
,
seminal
,
progestational
,
paraprofessional
,
matutinal
,
representational
,
flavonol
,
unconditional
,
intuitional
,
conversational
,
phloroglucinol
,
quirinal