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Definitions ofsentence
- The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
Example: "The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second."
- The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
Example: "The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler."
- A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
- (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.
Example: "The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard."
- A formula with no free variables.
- Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
- Sense; meaning; significance.
- One's opinion; manner of thinking.
- A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
- To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
Example: "The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine."
- To decree or announce as a sentence.
- To utter sententiously.
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