Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

sentinel

/ˈsɛn.tɪ.nəl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms sentinels sentineling sentinelling sentineled sentinelled centinel

  1. noun A sentry, watch, or guard.
  2. noun (obsolete) A private soldier.
  3. noun (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. “The <xmp> tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally”
  4. noun A sentinel crab.
  5. noun (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect). “sentinel animals can be used to explore endemic diseases.”
  6. verb (transitive) To watch over as a guard. “He sentineled the north wall.”
  7. verb (transitive) To post a guard for. “He sentineled the north wall with just one man.”
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona.
  9. proper noun A ghost town in Fresno County, California.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri.
  11. proper noun A town in Washita County, Oklahoma.

Synonyms

lookout lookout man sentry watch spotter scout picket

Etymology

First attested in the 1570s from Middle French sentinelle (“watch or guard kept by a soldier”), from Old Italian sentinella, probably from sentina + -ella, from sentire (“perceive, watch, hear”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive by the senses”). See also sense, sentient.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Watch; guard. [Obs.] "That princes do keep due sentinel." Bacon.
  3. verb To watch over like a sentinel. "To sentinel enchanted land." [R.]
  4. verb To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.

Etymology [F. sentinelle (cf. It. sentinella); probably originally, a litle path, the sentinel's beat,, and a dim. of a word meaning, path; cf. F. sente path. L. semita; and OF. sentine, sentele, senteret, diminutive words. Cf. Sentry.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “sentinel”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “sentinel” (best matches first).

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