sentinel
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Is sentinel a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of sentinel?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A private soldier.Examples: "“I will not permit the poorest centinel to be treated with injustice.”"obsolete
2. (computer science) A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.Examples: "The <xmp> tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally"; "[…] a sentinel value that indicates a missing entry."
3. (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).Examples: "sentinel animals can be used to explore endemic diseases."attributive
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To watch over as a guard.Examples: "He sentineled the north wall."transitive
2. (transitive) To post a guard for.Examples: "He sentineled the north wall with just one man."; "The old-fashioned stoop, with its suggestive benches on either side, lay solitary and silent in the moonlight; the garden path, weedily overgrown since father's death, and sentineled here and there with ragged hollyhock, lay quiet and dew-laden […]"transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary