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As nouns the difference between sentence and send

is that sentence is (obsolete) sense; meaning; significance while send is sin.

As a verb sentence

is to declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.

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)

    send

    English

    Verb

  • To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
  • (slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
  • * 1947 , (Robertson Davies), (The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks) , Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183,
  • The train had an excellent whistle which sent' me, just as Sinatra ' sends the bobby-sockers.
  • * 1957', (Sam Cooke), ,
  • Darling you send' me / I know you ' send me
  • * 1991 , , "(Set Adrift on Memory Bliss)",
  • Baby you send me.
  • To bring to a certain condition
  • * 1913 , ,
  • “I suppose,” blurted Clara suddenly, “she wants a man.”
    The other two were silent for a few moments.
    “But it’s the loneliness sends her cracked,” said Paul.
  • To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
  • * Bible, 2 Kings vi. 32
  • See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
  • To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
  • * Shakespeare
  • God send him well!
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 20
  • The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • God send your mission may bring back peace.
  • (nautical) To pitch.
  • * Totten
  • The ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.

    Synonyms

    * (make something go somewhere) emit, broadcast, mail

    Derived terms

    * besend * downsend * foresend * forsend * forthsend * insend * missend * offsend * onsend * outsend * oversend * send a message * send around * send away * send back * send down * send for * send in * send off/send-off * send on * send out * send someone packing * send someone to the showers * send to Coventry * send up/send-up * upsend

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
  • sends and receives
  • (nautical)
  • The send of the sea. — Longfellow.

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