sentences
/ˈsɛntənsɪz/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- 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.
- A formula with no free variables.
- To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
- To decree or announce as a sentence.
- To utter sententiously.
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