Sentence vs Dimension - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
* Milton
(obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.
* Milton
* Atterbury
(dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
(obsolete) A saying, especially form a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
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*:Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence ) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.
(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.
(logic) A formula with no free variables.
(computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
* Dryden
* 1900', , Chapter I,
(obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence.
(obsolete) To utter sententiously.
A single aspect of a given thing.
A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
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A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
(geometry) The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.
(linear algebra) The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.
(physics) One of the physical properties that are regarded as fundamental measures of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.
(computing) Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.
(science fiction, fantasy) An alternative universe or plane of existence.
As nouns the difference between sentence and dimension
is that sentence is (obsolete) sense; meaning; significance while dimension is dimension.As a verb sentence
is to declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.sentence
English
(wikipedia sentence)Noun
(en noun)- The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence .
- My sentence is for open war.
- By them [Luther's works] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines.
- The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
- The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler.
- 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 .
- (Broome)
- The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
Synonyms
* verdict * convictionHypernyms
* (logic) formulaVerb
- The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
- Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.
- 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.
- (Shakespeare)
- (Feltham)
External links
* * 1000 English basic words ----dimension
English
(wikipedia dimension)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
- The dimension of velocity is length divided by time.