What does sentry mean?

Definitions for sentry
ˈsɛn trisen·t·ry

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picketnoun

    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

Wiktionary

  1. sentrynoun

    A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Centry, Sentry

    The thoughtless wits shall frequent forfeits pay,
    Who ’gainst the centry ’s box discharge their tea. John Gay.

  2. Sentrynoun

    Etymology: Corrupted, I believe, from sentinel.

    If I do send, dispatch
    Those sentries to our aid; the rest will serve
    For a short holding. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    The youth of hell strict guard may keep,
    And set their sentries to the utmost deep. Dryden.

    One goose they had, ’twas all they could allow,
    A wakeful sentry, and on duty now. Dryden.

    Here toils and death, and death’s half brother, sleep,
    Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. Dryden.

    Thou, whose nature cannot sleep,
    O’er my slumbers sentry keep;
    Guard me ’gainst those watchful foes,
    Whose eyes are open while mine close. Brown.

ChatGPT

  1. sentry

    A sentry is a soldier, guard, or watchman whose job is to stand and keep watch in order to protect a place, often standing guard against unexpected or potentially dangerous events. This term is commonly used in the military to refer to personnel assigned to monitor a specific area for safety and security reasons.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sentrynoun

    a soldier placed on guard; a sentinel

  2. Sentrynoun

    guard; watch, as by a sentinel

  3. Etymology: [Probably from OF. senteret a little patch; cf. F. sentier path, and OF. sente. See Sentinel.]

Wikidata

  1. Sentry

    The Sentry is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe. The character first appears in The Sentry #1 and was created by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee, with uncredited conceptual contributions by Rick Veitch.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sentry

    sen′tri, n. a sentinel: a soldier on guard to observe the approach of danger: a watch-tower.—ns Sen′try-box, a box to shelter a sentry; Sen′try-go, any active military duty. [Prob. a corr. of sentinel—Low L. semitarius—L. semita, a path.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. sentry

    A soldier, marine, or seaman placed upon any post, to watch and enforce any specific order with which he may be intrusted.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. sentry

    (from the Lat. sentire, “to feel or perceive,” through the Ital. sentinella). A private soldier, marine, or sailor, posted at a point of trust, with the duty of watching the approach of an enemy, or any person suspected of hostile intentions. Sentinels mount guard over dépots of arms, the tents of commanding officers, etc. During the night, each sentinel is intrusted with the “word,” or countersign; and no person, however exalted in position, may attempt to approach or pass him without giving that as a signal. In such case, the sentinel is bound to arrest the intruder, and if necessary to shoot him. It has happened before now that the commander-in-chief of an army has been prisoner in the hands of one of his own sentinels. When an army is in the field, the sentinels are its eyes, for they guard the approaches in every direction some distance in front of the main body of troops. In the event of an attack, they give the alarm, and retire slowly on their supports. There is usually an agreement, tacit or expressed, between commanders that their outlying sentinels shall not fire upon one another, which would only be productive of useless bloodshed. Under martial law, death is the penalty to a sentinel sleeping on post. Sentinels will present arms to general and field-officers, to the officer of the day, and the commanding officer of a post; to all other officers they will carry arms. Staff-officers above the rank of captain are entitled to the same compliments from sentinels as are given to field-officers.

  2. sentry

    The same as sentinel. “Sentry go,” is the warning given by the sentry at the guard-room or tent that it is time to relieve sentries.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sentry in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sentry in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of sentry in a Sentence

  1. George Takei:

    There were 6.5 acres covered with barracks, barbwire fence, sentry towers -- I recognize them, i remembered a stray dog that we adopted who would crawl into the crawl space and peer out from under it. Or the mess hall and the noise and the laughter and so forth.

  2. Salvador Dali:

    Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

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