amerikai:
brit:
1. 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 cattle rustler.
3. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
4. 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, 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.
6. A formula with no free variables.
7. Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
8. Sense; meaning; significance.
9. One's opinion; manner of thinking.
10. A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
1. To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
2. To decree or announce as a sentence.
3. To utter sententiously.