Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SENTENCE

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Definitions of SENTENCE

1. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
2. To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
3. (especially, legal or poetic) To decree, announce or pass as a sentence.
4. (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. [from 14th c.]
5. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. [from 14th c.]
6. (obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm. [14th]
7. (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. [from 15th c.]
8. (logic) A formula with no free variables. [from 20th c.]
9. (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. [from 20th c.]
10. (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
11. (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking. [14th]
12. (obsolete) To utter sententiously.
13. (archaic) A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question. [from 14th c.]

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Examples of Using SENTENCE in a Sentence

• The defendant explicitly admits specifically and in detail the actions and their reasons in exchange for a reduced sentence.
• Antipope Felix II, an archdeacon of Rome, was installed as Pope in 355 AD after the Emperor Constantius II banished the reigning Pope, Liberius, for refusing to subscribe to a sentence of condemnation against Saint Athanasius.
• A paradox, such as "this sentence is false" can also be considered to be an antinomy; in this case, for the sentence to be true, it must be false.
• Conditional sentence, a sentence type used to refer to hypothetical situations and their consequences.
• It appears to have arisen over theological contentions concerning the meaning, figurative or literal, of a sentence from the Gospel of John: "the Word was made Flesh".
• In linguistics, declension (verb: to decline) is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way of some inflection.
• The completeness theorem applies to any first-order theory: If T is such a theory, and φ is a sentence (in the same language) and every model of T is a model of φ, then there is a (first-order) proof of φ using the statements of T as axioms.
• Encoding the sentence with this code requires 135 (or 147) bits, as opposed to 288 (or 180) bits if 36 characters of 8 (or 5) bits were used (This assumes that the code tree structure is known to the decoder and thus does not need to be counted as part of the transmitted information).
• One player thinks of a word, phrase, or sentence and the other(s) tries to guess it by suggesting letters or numbers within a certain number of guesses.
• Thus to go is an infinitive, as is go in a sentence like "I must go there" (but not in "I go there", where it is a finite verb).
• Ruby's conviction and death sentence were overturned on appeal, and he was granted a new trial, but he became ill, was diagnosed with cancer, and died of a pulmonary embolism on January 3, 1967.
• It is a type of ambiguity that stems from a phrase having two or more distinct meanings, not from the grammar or structure of the sentence.
• In "this sentence is a lie", the paradox is strengthened in order to make it amenable to more rigorous logical analysis.
• For example, the relation "x is divisible by y and z" consists of the set of 3-tuples such that when substituted to x, y and z, respectively, make the sentence true.
• Since 1982, the murder trial of Abu-Jamal has been seriously criticized for constitutional failings; some have claimed that he is innocent, and many opposed his death sentence.
• Prior to his reign, he had twice incurred a sentence of deprivation of orders as a subdeacon and as a priest.
• In logic, the semantic principle (or law) of bivalence states that every declarative sentence expressing a proposition (of a theory under inspection) has exactly one truth value, either true or false.
• A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as madam or racecar, the date "22/02/2022" and the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama".
• For example, in the passive sentence "The tree was pulled down", the subject (the tree) denotes the patient rather than the agent of the action.
• A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written.
• He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sex with a minor in exchange for a probation-only sentence.
• Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituency), agreement, the nature of crosslinguistic variation, and the relationship between form and meaning (semantics).
• Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a word in a phrase or sentence.
• The reference may be expressed either directly—through some intermediate sentence or formula—or by means of some encoding.
• In linguistic typology, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third.

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