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sentinel

/sen-tn-l/US // ˈsɛn tn l //UK // (ˈsɛntɪnəl) //

哨兵,哨兵队,步哨,前哨

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.
    • : a soldier stationed as a guard to challenge all comers and prevent a surprise attack: to stand sentinel.
    • : Digital Technology. tag.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sen·ti·neled, sen·ti·nel·ing or sen·ti·nelled, sen·ti·nel·ling.

    • : to watch over or guard as a sentinel.

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Examples

  • The police feel that they’re getting an always available sentinel standing guard in front of the homes of repeat victims of crime.

  • These sentinels stay in contact with systems equipped to issue streams of calibrated instructions to the parts of the body that can act to maintain stability.

  • This clinical strategy relies both on infected individuals coming to sentinel hospitals and medical authorities who are influential and persistent enough to raise the alarm.

  • That’s the Kinyarwandan name for the eight volcanoes — two active, six dormant — that stand sentinel over the tripartite border of Uganda, Rwanda and Congo.

  • It matters where tohorā feed and how their populations recover from whaling because the species is recognised as a sentinel for climate change throughout the Southern Hemisphere.

  • The program, Satellite Sentinel Project, is designed to document and deter atrocities against civilians.

  • Clooney heads the Satellite Sentinel Project, which monitors human rights abuses.

  • They were reading the Lodi News-Sentinel and the Indianapolis Star and the Milwaukee Journal.

  • “The more I thought about it, the more sense it made,” she told the Sun-Sentinel in 1998.

  • A web promotion for X-Men: Days of Future Past indicated that the character had been killed by a Sentinel in 2011.

  • The Café tender was asleep in his chair; the porter had gone off; the sentinel alone kept awake on his post.

  • The sentinel was singing a sequedilla above; and its notes came to them with the wailing blast.

  • The sentinel stood leaning against a tree, his head on his breast, apparently sound asleep.

  • A few miles in advance of the island stands the beautiful Falcon Rock, like a sentinel upon the look-out.

  • At length he approached a sentinel, who called “halt” three times without response, and then shot the lieutenant dead.