Sentinel vs Mortal - What's the difference?
sentinel | mortal |
A sentry or guard.
* 1719-
* Macaulay
(computer science) a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way; a keyword.
Watch; guard.
* Francis Bacon
A sentinel crab.
To watch over as a guard.
To post as guard.
To post a guard for.
Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), :
Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.11:
Fatally vulnerable; vital.
* Milton
Of or relating to the time of death.
* Alexander Pope
Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
* Dryden
* mortal enemy
Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
* Milton
Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
(UK, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
A human; someone susceptible to death.
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*1596 , (William Shakespeare), (w, A Midsummer Night's Dream)
*:Lord what fools these mortals be!
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*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
As nouns the difference between sentinel and mortal
is that sentinel is a sentry or guard while mortal is a human; someone susceptible to death.As a verb sentinel
is to watch over as a guard.As an adjective mortal is
susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.sentinel
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- the sentinels who paced the ramparts
- The ''<nowiki>'' tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally.
- that princes do keep due sentinel
Verb
- He sentineled the north wall.
- He sentineled him on the north wall.
- He sentineled the north wall with just one man.
mortal
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.
- Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist / A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […].
- Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.
- Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, / Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
- The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.
- mortal''' wit or knowledge; '''mortal power
- The voice of God / To mortal ear is dreadful.
- a sermon lasting two mortal hours
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- Let's go out and get mortal !