sentence

IPA: sˈɛntʌns

noun

  • (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
  • The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  • A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  • (obsolete) 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, in modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
  • (logic) A formula with no free variables.
  • (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
  • (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
  • (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.
  • (archaic) A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

verb

  • To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
  • (especially law or poetic) To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
  • (obsolete) To utter sententiously.
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Examples of "sentence" in Sentences

  • That sentence is code for people die during the crossing.
  • Truly, though not yet taken, the sentence is already written.
  • It opens bluntly with the title sentence and then goes on in a rat-a-tat style familiar to Hammett's legion of fans.
  • I assume that incoherent sentence translates as "I've never seen a post or link with instructions on how to join the fight".
  • You just know that the system has failed disasterously when a person accused of a serious offence shouts ‘get in’ when his sentence is announced … … ….
  • The jury -- the -- the judge has 90 days to issue what he calls a sentence, which is (INAUDIBLE) which is the reason he gave the -- the decision he did today.
  • The beauty of this simple Latin sentence is that the (to us) out-of-sequence word order actually reinforces its poetic meaning by beginning with a sort of floating adjective, level, that must wait until the very end before it joins up with its noun, in this case waters.
  • Example: sentence = her other coat is red var1 = her var2 = his check character to the left of % var1% to be replaced and store the value into var_left check character to the right of % var1% to be replaced and store the value into var_right if both % var_left% and % var_right% contain spaces then replace % var1% with % var2% else move on to next word in % sentence%
  • But in my Method the aim is _to repeat as much of the sentence as is possible informing the question and the whole of it in each reply_; and in _question and reply_ the _word_ that _constitutes the point of both_ is to be especially _emphasized_, and in this way _the mind is exercised on each word of the sentence twice_ (once in question and once in answer), and _each word of the sentence is emphasized in reference to the whole of the sentence_.

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