sentence

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noun

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sentences

1.
(dated)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.
2.
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 child rapist.
3.
A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
4.
(obsolete)A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
5.
(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.
Near-synonym: clause
The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
Đồng nghĩa: clause
6.
(logic) A formula with no free variables.
7.
(computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
8.
(obsolete)Sense; meaning; significance.
9.
(obsolete)One's opinion; manner of thinking.
10.
(archaic)A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

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verb

V_es/s

sentences

V_ing/Gerund

sentencing

V_ed/pp

sentenced

1.
(transitive)To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: adjudge, condemn, doom, adjudge, convict, condemn, damn, deem, doom, judge, sentence, pass sentence
2.
(especially, poetic)(especially law or poetic) To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
[…] upholding Idaho statute mandating that court "shall" sentence death upon finding an aggravating circumstance "unless" it finds outweighing mitigating circumstances because satisfies individualized sentencing requirement […]
3.
(obsolete)To utter sententiously.

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Đồng nghĩa

clause adjudge condemn doom convict damn deem judgepass sentenceverdict conviction

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (way of thinking, opinion, sentiment), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (to feel, think), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (to feel).