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Definition: Sentry |
SentryNoun1. A person employed to watch for something to happen. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sentry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a sentry, denotes that you will have kind protectors, and your life will be smoothly conducted. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SentrySynonyms: lookout (n), lookout man (n), picket (n), scout (n), sentinel (n), spotter (n), watch (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Keeper | Noun: keeper, custodian, custos, ranger, warder, jailer, gaoler, turnkey, castellan, guard; watchdog, watchman; Charley; chokidar, durwan, hayward; sentry, sentinel; watch and ward; concierge, coast guard, guarda costa, game keeper. |
Safety | Watchdog, bandog; Cerberus; watchman, patrolman, policeman; cop, dick, fuzz, smokey, peeler, zarp; sentinel, sentry, scout; (warning); garrison; guardship. |
Warning | Watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse; (indication of locality). sentinel, sentry; watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog, housedog; patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sentry |
| English words defined with "sentry": beat, box ♦ Centry, challenge ♦ demand for identification ♦ guard, guard duty, Guerite ♦ man, military man, military personnel ♦ Outsentry ♦ post ♦ round ♦ Sentery, Sentires, sentry box, sentry duty, sentry go, serviceman, station. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sentry": electronic sentry ♦ NAPOLEON ♦ Sentry. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sentry": Centry ♦ Sentery. (references) |
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Screenplays | I am the official sentry of the Isle of Misfit toys. (Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer; writing credit: Robert May; Romeo Muller) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | E3 Sentry AWACS. |  | E-3 Sentry. |
 | "General Muster" on board, circa 1887-88. The ship's Commanding Officer, Commander William Bainbridge Hoff, is in center, leaning on the grating rack. Note Marine sentry at the gangway, hammock stowage, and large percentage of black sailors among the crew at left.Credit: NAVY. |  | Section Patrol boat base at Lockwood's Basin, circa 1918, with USS Moosehead (ID # 2047) alongside the pier in the right background. Among the patrol boats present are USS Skink (SP-605), in the left foreground, and USS Alacrity (SP-206) behind her. Note Sailor sentry at the extreme right. Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Seated railroad guard by sentry post.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | As a most engaging grin overspread his features, whispered, try the next sentry, he's easy.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Unknown Soldier's tomb with sentry.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Haunted sentry box, San Juan, P.R.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sailor on Sentry.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A Zouave Sentry.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They are relieved like soldiers standing sentry. |
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Business | Typical brand names offered in the market are Sentry, Ansue, Firemaster, and Amerix. (references) | |
Human Rights | Chad | On May 19, two soldiers killed Jean Paul Kimtolnan, a sentry working for the nongovernmental organization (NGO) World Vision, in the southern city of Doba. (references) |
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| "Sentry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.21% of the time. "Sentry" is used about 168 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.21% | 165 | 24,305 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.79% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 168 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| South Africa | Sentry Group Limited | USA | Sentry Technology Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "sentry": be on sentry ♦ sentry box ♦ sentry coat ♦ sentry dog ♦ sentry duty ♦ sentry go ♦ submarine sentry. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sentry": sentry-box, sentry-duty, Sentry-e, sentry-go. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sentry safe | 471 | cctv sentry | 12 |
sentry fire safe | 466 | sentry security | 11 |
sentry | 363 | sentry tire | 11 |
sentry insurance | 169 | news sentry | 11 |
auction sentry | 99 | sentry home | 10 |
news sentry slidell | 64 | sentry lincoln mercury | 9 |
food sentry | 45 | grp.com sentry | 9 |
slidell sentry | 43 | sentry table pad | 8 |
sentry gun safe | 42 | sentry buick | 8 |
sentry pool | 19 | sentry fire | 8 |
ip sentry | 19 | sentry hardware | 8 |
ford sentry | 18 | newspaper sentry slidell | 7 |
select sentry | 18 | dvr sentry | 7 |
sentry real estate | 18 | cache sentry | 7 |
credit sentry union | 17 | sentry safe company | 7 |
sentry group | 17 | dog sentry | 7 |
management sentry | 15 | prodregister.com sentry | 7 |
food sentry store | 13 | sentry insurance company | 7 |
power sentry | 12 | sentry technology | 7 |
sentry stow | 12 | combination safe sentry | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "sentry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rojtar (care-taker, custodian, ganger, gangsman, gaoler, old timer, overlooker, sentinel, watch, watchdog, watchman), rojë (custodian, escort, guard, guards, guardsman, janitor, keeper, look out, picket, piquet, sentinel, vigil, ward, watchman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حارس (bodyguard, guard, guardian, keeper, lookout, sentinel, tutelar), حراسة (guard rail, guardianship, keeping, safeguard, ward, watch), خفير (patrolman, sentinel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стража (guard, look out, watch, watchmen), часови (sentinel), караул (guard, sentry go, watchman), лице (appearance, bod, countenance, face, features, figurehead, front, front view, frontage, individual, kisser, map, person, persona, personage, physiognomy, puss, visage), пост (assignment, billet, guard, office, position, post, quarter, room, station). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 步" (sentinel), "兵, " (a whistle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stráž (guard, patrol, relief, sentinel, watch), hlídka (guard, patrol, watch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | afsoegningsapparat (submarine sentry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wacht (guard, wait, watch), schildwacht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | gardostaranto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نگهبانی , نگهبان (Curator, Custodian, Escort, Guardian, Guardsman, Keeper, Lifeguard, Sentinel, Ward, Warden, Watchdog, Watchman), کشیک (Picket, Sentinel, Vigilance, Watch), قراول (Sentinel, Warden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vartija (attendant, guard, keeper, watchman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sentinelle (sentinel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wache (guard, guard duty, guard room, guardhouse, guardsman, Nick, security guard, security man, sentinel, sentries, station, station house, watch), Wachposten (guard, guardsman, lookout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκοπόσ (aim, animus, cause, design, effect, end, intension, intent, object, objective, purport, purpose, purview, sake, scope, sentinel, tenor, view), φρουρόσ (custodian, guard, guardsman, look out, patrol, patrolman, sentinel, vedette, vidette, warder, watch, watchdog, watchman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שומר (guard, keeper, sentinel, warden, watchman), זקיף (guard, lookout, sentinel), טור (guard, sentinel, watchman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | őrszem (picket, post, sentinel, watch), őr (custodian, guard, keeper, lookout man, minder, sentinel, ward, watch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kawal (guard, watchman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sentinella (flagman, look-out man, picket, sentinel, watch), guardia (constable, endpapers, ends, garde, guard, guarders, guarding, guardsman, keeping, look out, minder, policeman, ward, watch, watcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 番兵 (guard), 番' (guard), 歩" , "兵 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうへい (employment, engagement, hiring, officers and men, peace, tranquility, wounded soldier), ば"ぺい (guard), ば"そつ (guard, host of soldiers), ほしょう (assurance, barrier reef, compensation, guarantee, pledge, reparation, security, warranty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 보초. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | arreyder (guardian, keeper, lookout, watchman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entrysay sentinela (guard, sentinel, vedette, warder, watch, watch guard, watcher), dispositivo sinalizador (sentinel). (various references) strajã (guard, patrol, sentinel, shield, ward, watch), santinelã (guardsman, sentinel, watch), pazã (guard, guardianship, keeping, picket, safeguard, safety, security, sentinel, ward, watch). (various references) часовой (guard, sentinel). (various references) stražarski (sentinel, watchman), stražar (guard, guardsman, sentinel, watch, watcher, watchman), straža (dogwatch, guard, look out, lookout, patrol, sentinel, sentry go, watch). (various references) centinela (flagman, guard, look-out man, sentinel, vedette, watch). (various references) vaktpost (guard, sentinel). (various references) nöbetçi (guard, guardsman, picket, sentinel, warder, watchman), nöbet (attack, bout, guard duty, ictus, invasion, paroxysm, police, post, sentry go, spell, tour, turn, turn of duty, turn of work, watch). (various references) сторожа (watch), вартовий (guard, guardsman, sentinel, warden, warder, watcher), лот-застережник. (various references) nhiệm vụ đi đi lại lại trong khi canh gác (sentry-go), chòi gác (sentry-box), bốt gác (sentry-box). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | custodem, custodes, custodi, custodibus, custodis, custodum, custos, cyatos. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "sentry": misentry. (additional references) | |
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"Sentry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: centry, dentory, santri, sastri, Sastry, senory, sentir, sentra, senty, Septr, sextry, Szendrey, Tsentr, ventry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sentry" (pronounced se"ntrē) |
| 5 | -e" n t r ē | complementary, elementary, entry, gentry. |
| 4 | -n t r ē | carpentry, country, gallantry, gantry, infantry, pageantry, pantry, peasantry, pedantry, pleasantry, reentry, wintry. |
| 3 | -t r ē | ancestry, artistry, asymmetry, banditry, baptistery, basketry, bigotry, biochemistry, cabinetry, chemistry, circuitry, dentistry, dissymmetry, forestry, gadgetry, geochemistry, geometry, helotry, idolatry, industry, Maestri, ministry, mitre, optometry, palmistry, paltry, pastry, poetry, poultry, psychiatry, punditry, puppetry, registry, rocketry, spectrometry, sultry, summitry, symmetry, tapestry, telemetry, toiletry, zealotry. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: entry, nerts, rents, stern, syren, terns, treys, tyers, tynes, tyres. | |
-2 letters: erns, erst, nest, nets, rent, rest, rets, ryes, sent, snye, stey, stye, syne, tens, tern, trey, tyer, tyes, tyne, tyre, yens. | |
-3 letters: ens, ern, ers, net, res, ret, rye, sen, ser, set, sty, syn, ten, try, tye, yen, yes, yet. | |
-4 letters: en, er. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: sternly, styrene, yestern. | |
+2 letters: ancestry, drystone, encrypts, misentry, serenity, sternway, styrenes, subentry, tourneys, turnkeys, tyrosine, yestreen. | |
+3 letters: attorneys, barytones, bystander, dentistry, dysentery, earnestly, entryways, erythrons, estraying, eyestrain, insectary, interlays, keynoters, mesentery, monastery, nervosity, oystering, oysterman, oystermen, peasantry, presently, restyling, sedentary, seniority, sergeanty, serjeanty, sincerity, splintery, sternways, strangely, stridency, strongyle, syncretic, synergist, tyramines, tyrannies, tyrannise, tyrosines, vestryman, vestrymen, yestreens, youngster. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6E 74 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -. - .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n t r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0074 0072 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537180868491 |
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