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Curator vs Sentinel - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between curator and sentinel

is that curator is a person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo while sentinel is a sentry or guard.

As a verb sentinel is

to watch over as a guard.

curator

English

(wikipedia curator)

Alternative forms

* curatour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
  • One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.

    • Related terms

    * curated * curative * cure

    Derived terms

    * curate * curatorial * curatory

    See also

    * custodian * keeper * manager * overseer

    External links

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    sentinel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sentry or guard.
  • * 1719-
    • They promised faithfully to bear their confinement with patience, and were very thankful that they had such good usage as to have provisions and light left them; for Friday gave them candles (such as we made ourselves) for their comfort; and they did not know but that he stood sentinel over them at the entrance.
  • * Macaulay
    • the sentinels who paced the ramparts
  • (computer science) a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way; a keyword.
    • The ''<nowiki>'' tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally.
  • Watch; guard.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • that princes do keep due sentinel
  • A sentinel crab.

    • Verb

  • To watch over as a guard.
    • He sentineled the north wall.
  • To post as guard.
    • He sentineled him on the north wall.
  • To post a guard for.
    • He sentineled the north wall with just one man.