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(transitive, rare) To guard about or completely; protect.
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Obsolete spelling of sentinel [A sentry, watch, or guard.]
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Obsolete form of sentinel. [A sentry, watch, or guard.]
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Obsolete form of sentinel. [A sentry, watch, or guard.]
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Obsolete form of sentry. [A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.]
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(historical, military) Any of the allied military intelligence operatives stationed on remote Pacific island locations during World War II, to observe enemy shipping movements and rescue stranded Allied personnel.
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One who guards a condemned person before execution.
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(transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
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(obsolete) A keeping watch; a vigil.
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The premier of several musicians playing a particular instrument in an orchestra: seated closest to the audience, taking the lead for that instrument's movements, and playing any solos.
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A person or group of people that conducts a patrol or surveillance of an area by walking.
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(music) The lead singer of a band.
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A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
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To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
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(military) A position established for the purpose of detecting the enemy's movements by means of listening.
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(programming) Synonym of include guard
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One or more of the guards on such a watch.
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A person who guards (usually at a building) at night.
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Alternative form of night watch [A watch kept on some premises, or on a town, by guards during the night.]
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Alternative form of night watch [A watch kept on some premises, or on a town, by guards during the night.]
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Someone who guards a premises at night.
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(Australia, dated) Someone, usually a criminal, who keeps watch; a lookout
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(military) A sentry etc. manning an observation post
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(military) A sentry who guards the entrance or approach to a place.
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(sometimes figuratively) A sentry.
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(transitive) To systematize, or put in rigid order.
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To pass the watch or sentinel without leave.
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Obsolete form of sentry. [A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.]
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(attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
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(medicine) Any unanticipated or unusual event in a medical setting which results in death or serious physical injury to a person or persons, specifically including limb loss or gross motor function.
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At which a sentry is posted.
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A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
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A location where a sentry is officially stationed.
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(construction) A passer-by or other person who watches and possibly advises work at a construction project from a sidewalk or other vantage point.
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(weightlifting, gymnastics, climbing) One who supervises a person performing an activity, in order to help them should they be unable to complete it.
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To guard; to maintain a stance of vigilance in order to protect.
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(of soldiers) To keep watch.
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(figuratively) A person who visibly leads.
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A period of monitoring of someone, especially a prisoner deemed likely to commit suicide, to ensure they do not attempt suicide.
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(historical, military) A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger.
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(vexillology) To gather or to lead an army under a flag.
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Alternative form of vedette [(historical, military) A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger.]
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A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.
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(obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
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A person or group of people who guard.
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(by extension) Uninterrupted vigilance.
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(nautical) The regular alternation in being on watch and off watch of the two watches into which a ship's crew is commonly divided.
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Alternative spelling of watchtower [An observation tower in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires, etc.]
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To perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn.
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A lookout (person who keeps watch).
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The duties of a watchkeeper, i.e. keeping a lookout.
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One set to watch; a person who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.
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The state or business of a watchman.
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A companion during a watch.
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An observation tower in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires, etc.
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