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Sentence vs Declare - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between sentence and declare

is that sentence is to declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment while declare is to make clear, explain, interpret.

As a noun sentence

is sense; meaning; significance.

sentence

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
  • * Milton
  • The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence .
  • (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.
  • * Milton
  • My sentence is for open war.
  • * Atterbury
  • By them [Luther's works] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines.
  • (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.
  • 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.
  • * 1900 , , (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 .
  • A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  • (obsolete) A saying, especially form a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
  • *, I.40:
  • *:Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence ) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.
  • (Broome)
  • (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.
  • (logic) A formula with no free variables.
  • (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
  • Synonyms

    * verdict * conviction

    Hypernyms

    * (logic) formula

    Verb

  • 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.
  • * Dryden
  • Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.
  • * 1900', , 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.
  • (obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To utter sententiously.
  • (Feltham)

    declare

    English

    Verb

    (declar)
  • (obsolete) To make clear, explain, interpret.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XV:
  • Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare unto us thys parable.
  • * Boyle
  • To declare this a little, we must assume that the surfaces of all such bodies are exactly smooth.
  • To make a declaration.
  • To announce one’s support, choice, opinion, etc.
  • He declared him innocent.
  • (cricket) For the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete even though all batsmen have not been dismissed.
  • To announce something formally or officially.
  • declare bankruptcy
    declare victory
    (cricket) declare (an innings) closed
  • To affirm or state something emphatically.
  • To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
  • * 1984 , Richard Woodbury and Anastasia Toufexis, " Law: The Trouble with Harry," Time , 2 April:
  • The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income.
  • To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.
  • (computing) To explicitly include (a variable) as part of a list of variables, often providing some information about the data it is expected to contain.
  • The counter "i" was declared as an integer.

    Derived terms

    * declarant * declaration * declarative * declaratory * declarer * declare war

    Anagrams

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