SENTINEL

Sentinel

Sentinels are a fictional variety of mutant-hunting robots, appearing in the Marvel Comics Universe. They are usually portrayed as antagonists to the X-Men. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, they first appeared in The X-Men #14 .

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sentinel

Noun

  1. A sentry or guard.
  2. a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way; a keyword.
    The <nowiki> tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally.
  3. Watch; guard.
  4. A sentinel crab.

Verb

  1. To watch over as a guard.
    He sentineled the north wall.
  2. To post as guard.
    He sentineled him on the north wall.
  3. To post a guard for.
    He sentineled the north wall with just one man.


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