Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A grammatical unit that is syntactically independent and has a subject that is expressed or, as in imperative sentences, understood and a predicate that contains at least one finite verb.
- noun The penalty imposed by a law court or other authority upon someone found guilty of a crime or other offense.
- noun Archaic A maxim.
- noun Obsolete An opinion, especially one given formally after deliberation.
- transitive verb To impose a sentence on (a criminal defendant found guilty, for example).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brief response or antiphon sung by the choir in a church service.
- To pass or pronounce sentence or judgment on; condemn; doom to punishment.
- To pronounce as judgment; express as a decision or determination; decree.
- To express in a short, energetic, sententious manner.
- noun Way of thinking; opinion; sentiment; judgment; decision.
- noun A saying; a maxim; an axiom.
- noun A verdict, judgment, decision, or decree; specifically, in law, a definitive judgment pronounced by a court or judge upon a criminal; a judicial decision publicly and officially declared in a criminal prosecution.
- noun In grammar, a form of words having grammatical completeness; a number of words constituting a whole, as the expression of a statement, inquiry, or command; a combination of subject and predicate.
- noun Sense; meaning.
- noun Substance; matter; contents.
- noun In music, a complete idea, usually consisting of two or four phrases. The term is used somewhat variously as to length, but it always applies to a division that is complete and satisfactory in itself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
- transitive verb obsolete To decree or announce as a sentence.
- transitive verb obsolete To utter sententiously.
- noun obsolete Sense; meaning; significance.
- noun An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
- noun A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma.
- noun (Law) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judicial tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
- noun A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
- noun (Gram.) A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See
Proposition , 4. - noun a saying not easily explained.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
- verb obsolete To
decree orannounce as a sentence. - verb obsolete To utter
sententiously .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- noun (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
- verb pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
- noun a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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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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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.
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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.
The Frog 2009
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That sentence is code for people die during the crossing.
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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.
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I assume that incoherent sentence translates as "I've never seen a post or link with instructions on how to join the fight".
The draft scare. Ann Althouse 2006
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It opens bluntly with the title sentence and then goes on in a rat-a-tat style familiar to Hammett's legion of fans.
The Guardian World News Paul Harris 2011
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Truly, though not yet taken, the sentence is already written.
Chapter 17 2010
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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 … … ….
Another satisfied “customer” walks away laughing. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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