Sentinel vs Patrol - What's the difference?
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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.
(military) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
(military) A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.
(military) The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol.
* (rfdate) A. Hamilton:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-24, volume=408, issue=8850, magazine=(The Economist)
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To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.
In transitive terms the difference between sentinel and patrol
is that sentinel is to post a guard for while patrol is to go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.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.
patrol
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) patrouille, from (etyl) patrouille, . Related to (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- In France there is an army of patrols to secure her fiscal regulations.
Boots on the street, passage=Philadelphia’s foot-patrol' strategy was developed after a study in 2009 by criminologists from Temple University, which is in the 22nd district. A randomised trial overturned the conventional view that foot ' patrols make locals like the police more and fear crime less, but do not actually reduce crime. In targeted areas, violent crime decreased by 23%.}}