Sentence

Noun

 * 1)  One's opinion; manner of thinking.
 * 2)  Someone's pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
 * 3)  The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
 * The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
 * 1) The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
 * The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler.
 * 1) *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.
 * 1)  A saying, especially form a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
 * 2) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.40:
 * Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.
 * 1)  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.
 * The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
 * 1)  A formula with no free variables.
 * 2)  Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.

Synonyms

 * verdict
 * conviction

Hypernyms

 * formula

Related terms

 * sentential

Verb

 * 1) To declare a sentence on a convicted person.
 * The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
 * 1) *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.

Adjectives for Sentence
(general)

dispossessed; suspended; extravagant; tur gid; involved; hurried; merciful; animated; charming; epigrammatic; vigorous; memorable; concluding; incoherent; suggestive; characteristic; functionary; fragmentary; monotonous; lucid; obscure; final; irritable drastic; angry; incoherent; weird; vibrant telegraphic; haunting;  jerky;  dreadful dumb; childish; swift; stimulating; discreet scathing; mangled; whispered; favorite frigid; oracular; appalling; too-lenient pithy; hard; immediate; consecutive; fresh slovenly; declarative.

Verbs for Sentence
(punishment)

advocate—; annul—; commute—; deal out —; defer—; execute—; faint at—; impose —; justify—; mete out—; pass—; proclaim —; pronounce—; —binds; —expires.

Verbs for Sentence
(words)

balance—; build—; construct—; declaim—; disclaim—; detach—; embody—; hurl—; mutter—; paraphrase—; quote—; recast—; recollect—; reconstruct—; round—; sum up ——; toss—; transcribe—; —pound; —roll; —swing.

Thesaurus
Parthian shot, acquittal, act on, action, adage, address, adjectival phrase, adjudge, adjudicate, affirmation, allegation, ana, analects, anathematize, anathematizing, answer, aphorism, apostrophe, apothegm, article, assertion, attaint, averment, award, axiom, back matter, blacklist, blame, book, bring home to, byword, catchword, censure, chapter, clause, collected sayings, comment, condemn, condemnation, consideration, construction, convict, conviction, crack, current saying, damn, damnation, death sentence, death warrant, decision, declaration, decree, deliverance, denounce, denouncement, denunciate, denunciation, determination, devote, diagnosis, dictate, dictum, distich, doom, epigram, exclamation, excommunicate, excommunication, expression, fascicle, find, find against, find for, find guilty, finding, folio, front matter, gathering, gnome, golden saying, greeting, guilty verdict, headed group, idiom, idiotism, interjection, judge, judgement, judgment, landmark decision, locution, manner of speaking, maxim, mention, moral, mot, motto, note, noun phrase, number, observation, oracle, ordain, order, page, paragraph, pass judgment, pass sentence, pass sentence on, passage, peculiar expression, penalize, penalty, period, phrasal idiom, phrase, pithy saying, position, precedent, precept, prescript, prognosis, pronounce, pronounce judgment, pronounce on, pronounce sentence, pronouncement, proscribe, proscription, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, punish, punishment, question, rap, reflection, remark, report, resolution, return a verdict, rule, ruling, saw, say, saying, section, sententious expression, set phrase, sheet, signature, sloka, standard phrase, statement, stock saying, subjoinder, sutra, syntactic structure, teaching, term, text, thought, turn of expression, turn of phrase, usage, utter a judgment, utterance, verb complex, verb phrase, verbalism, verdict, verdict of guilty, verse, way of speaking, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, word-group, words of wisdom

Etymology
From sentence:, from  sententia:, from sentiens:, present participle of sentire:; see sentient, sense, scent.

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: cümlə
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 句子 (jùzǐ)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sætning
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: phrase
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 文 (ぶん, bun)
 * Korean: 문장 (munjang)
 * Kurdish:
 * Lao:
 * Latvian: teikums
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: گزاره,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: propoziţie
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: వాక్యము (vaakyamu)
 * Turkish: cümle, tümce


 * Arabic: (Hukm)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 判刑 (pànxíng)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: kohtuotsus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: sententia
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 判決 (はんけつ, hanketsu)
 * Korean: 판결 (pangyeol)
 * Lao: ການຕັດສິນ
 * Norwegian Bokmål: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: sentinţă
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Slovak: rozsudok
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: süüdimõistmine
 * Finnish: langettava tuomio
 * German: Verurteilung, Schuldspruch
 * Hungarian:


 * Interlingua: condemnation
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: присъда (prisǎda)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kondamno
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: keputusan hukum, vonis
 * Interlingua: pena


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 判決 (はんけつ, hanketsu)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:, , condena, pena
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: శిక్ష (Siksha)


 * Czech:


 * Swahili:


 * : वाक्य
 * : frazo
 * : sin

Verb

 * Bulgarian:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: straffen, veroordelen tot
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: memutuskan, memvonis
 * Interlingua: sententiar
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 判決を下す (はんけつをくだす, hanketsu wo kudasu)
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian: dømme
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: приговаривать (prigovárivat’)
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: avkunna dom,
 * Welsh: dedfrydu

Noun

 * 1) sentence formula with no free variables

Noun

 * 1)  judgement; verdict

Etymology
sententia: