(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).
Vedette
Definition:
(n.) A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger; a vidette.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vedette dwarf broiler breeder female chicks were raised in floor pens and fed a standard starter ration.
(2) Induction of maternal behavior was performed in 63-week-old hens of the JV15 (or "Vedette") strain which had previously exhibited brief incubating phases during the preceding egg-laying period to discover if their maternal behavior differed from that induced in hens who had no previous record of incubating.
(3) Growth and in vitro metabolism were assessed in 4 wk-old Ross male and Vedette dwarf female chickens and the offspring of this mating.