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Definition
noun (English)
1. (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.Examples: "The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second."; "A branch that has played a significant part in the history of its territory is under sentence at the end of the summer timetables, so far as its passenger services are concerned."dated
2. (obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.Examples: "Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves."; "I am told that she writes well, and that all her letters are full of sentences."obsolete
3. (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. 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.Examples: "Near-synonym: clause"; "The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard."
4. (logic) A formula with no free variables.
5. (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
6. (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.Examples: "Noght o word spak he moore than was neede, / And that was seyd in forme and reverence / And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence […]"; "now to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent."; "Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; […]"obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.Examples: "The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine."; "Nature herself is sentenced in your doom."; "1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I, The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence."Synonyms: pass sentencetransitive
2. (especially law or poetic) To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.Examples: "“We are empowered to deliver thee to prison; yea, the law commands us to sentence death upon the abettors of this mischief.[…]""; "So as far as the older generation of German Lutherans were concerned, the abolition of the mother language sentenced death upon the church as they knew it."; "But little did I know, As I cleared away that snow, I'd sentenced death upon that rose, For late that night it simply froze. I'd taken its one chance away, As I stripped it of its quilt that day. I learned a lesson late that night, ..."especiallypoetic
3. (obsolete) To utter sententiously.Examples: "Let me heare one wise man sentence it, rather then twenty Fooles, garrulous in their lengthened tattle."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary