SENTENCE

Sentence

A sentence is a decree of punishment. In law, a sentence forms the final explicit act of a judge-ruled process, and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function. The sentence can generally involve a decree of imprisonment, a fine and/or other punishments against a defendant convicted of a crime. Those imprisoned for multiple crimes will serve a consecutive sentence, a concurrent sentence, or somewhere in between, sometimes subject to a cap. If a sentence gets reduced to a less harsh punishment, then the sentence is said to have been "mitigated" or "commuted". Rarely murder charges are ...

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sentence

Noun

  1. Sense; meaning; significance.
  2. One's opinion; manner of thinking.
  3. A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  7. A saying, especially form a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
  8. 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.
  9. A formula with no free variables.
  10. Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.

Verb

  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.


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