(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.
(n.) Watch; guard.
(n.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.
(v. t.) To watch over like a sentinel.
(v. t.) To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.
Example Sentences:
(1) With Air Sentinels in the bedroom and living room for airborne collections, and a Sample Vac for collections from living room carpet and bedroom mattress, immunochemical quantifications of each were made with various radiometric assays with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(2) Similarly, in all three naturally infected sentinel chickens from Maryland, IgM class antibody was undetectable 1 to 5 weeks after IgM was initially detected.
(3) Ten sentinel pigs placed in the area all developed haemagglutination-inhibition antibodies against Japanese encephalitis and the virus was isolated from the blood of 3.
(4) Specific-pathogen-free leghorn sentinel chickens were vaccinated with Massachusetts (Mass) alone, Mass and JMK, or Mass and Arkansas (Ark) combination live vaccines, or they remained unvaccinated.
(5) BTV serotypes 11 and 17 were initially isolated from nearly all sentinel sheep, goats and dairy calves from late July through September, whereas isolates of 11 and 17 were made from only 2 beef cows and 2 deer in August and September.
(6) The numbers of females captured by both types of traps were significantly correlated with human sentinel collections.
(7) Contaminants were recovered from 10% of Isolator 10, 2.7% of Bactec, and 7.2% of Sentinel bottles.
(8) "Let me assure you that our brave sentinels on the border will address any issue that happens on the border," said the foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin.
(9) The paper analyses 50 pairs of sera pre-elevated within the "sentinel" epidemiological surveillance in a population exposed to a high risk at a 2 months interval.
(10) It is more elaborate that the previously described selective biopsies and includes biopsy of all identifiable nodes in the inguinal region, including the sentinel node area.
(11) The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN) conducted an observational study of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in the primary care setting.
(12) No MVE virus was isolated from these mosquitoes, but serum from one of the sentinel chickens contained MVE virus antibodies, indicating the presence of the virus in that region.
(13) Good folks and bad folks Sentinel spokeswoman Ann Marie Dryden said that the company is committed to helping the offenders it supervises fulfill the terms of their probation and leave the criminal justice system.
(14) Sentinel mice were housed in microisolator cages, exposed continuously to soiled bedding and bled at 21 and 42 days for serology.
(15) Seven further virus isolates from sentinel calves at Shambat (Khartoum) confirmed the presence of BTV serotypes 1, 4 and 16, and an untyped EHDV (designated 318) in the Sudan.
(16) Still, in interviews with home-state reporters Monday, Ryan denounced the idea of any Republican launching a third-party or independent candidacy to challenge Trump, telling the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel it “would be a disaster for our party”.
(17) Splenectomized cattle and mature, spleen-intact cattle were used as sentinels in a 4-year study to assess the seasonality of naturally transmitted anaplasmosis.
(18) During heat shock and other forms of physiological stress, heat shock proteins act as intracellular sentinels to recognize malfolded proteins.
(19) Net egg production and numbers of larvae acquired by sentinel mice of each strain were monitored every two weeks.
(20) The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN) undertook a 100% audit of 226 patients included in a study of spontaneous abortion (SAB).
Vanguard
Definition:
(n.) The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.
Example Sentences:
(1) At its vanguard is the historic quarter of Barriera di Milano, which is being transformed by an influx of artists and galleries.
(2) The trust drew up a contract with Vanguard to treat 400 patients.
(3) CND costs The Vanguard-class fleet operates out of the deep-water naval base at Faslane on the Clyde, but also makes use of the US navy’s base at Kings Bay in Georgia.
(4) For example, Vanguard is majority owned by MML Capital.
(5) The spokesman said Scottish Power was at the vanguard of developing wind power - it has 12 windfarms in the UK - and other renewable sources of power, but added: "At the same time, we are going to need coal and gas to support that."
(6) So too were Shia militias, which have often been at the vanguard of the fight against Isis elsewhere in the country, especially in Diyala province, between Baghdad and Kirkuk.
(7) Was it patient waiting lists or patient care at the forefront of their minds when the senior Musgrove management team penned the contract with Vanguard?” Laurence Vick, a lawyer representing some of the patients affected, said many concerns remained.
(8) The severity of stenosis using DSCAG with a 512 x 512 x 8 bit matrix was semiautomatically measured on the cathode ray tube (CRT) based on enlarged images on the screen of a Vanguard cine projector which were of the same size as those of or 10 times larger than images of Cine-CAG.
(9) Indeed, far from being irrelevant, school nurses are the vanguard in the fight against drug use, teen pregnancy and child abuse.
(10) Using a commercially available analyzer (Vanguard XR70) we confirmed intra- and interobserver reproducibilities in 34 narrowings in 9 patients.
(11) Cameron said that the vanguard communities, each to be given a team of civil servants, will be the "training grounds" of the 'big society'.
(12) Moore had even greater problems with the Royal Naval commanders of the four Vanguard-class submarines armed with Trident nuclear missiles.
(13) Hezbollah is also believed to be at the vanguard of an offensive in the Qalamoun mountains just east of the Syrian border, which looms as a strategic battleground in the overall fight for control of the country.
(14) AstraZeneca's second-largest shareholder, Vanguard, is a "passive" investor that holds a 4.74% stake through index funds that it manages.
(15) Since that time, women from the higher social groups have comprised the vanguard of the movement back to breastfeeding.
(16) What feels different now is that who’s at the forefront of the conversation is no longer the old vanguard of primarily cisgender, heterosexual black men,” Cullors told me.
(17) Small quantities of glioma associated antibodies probably circulate within the patient's serum but there is definite evidence of depression of the cell-mediated vanguard of the immune response.
(18) Photograph: Reuters She is principally a reporter for Vanguard, an international current affairs show, and covered stories in countries including Mexico, Vietnam and China.
(19) The lives of the Vanguard submarines will be prolonged to fill the gap.
(20) A group can act as political vanguard and proceed in a more expeditious way to reach new common objectives, such as defence, economic security, combating inequalities and support to the young people.” Gozi added that it would be easier for the EU to pursue such reforms following Britain’s decision to leave.