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As a noun sentence

is (obsolete) sense; meaning; significance.

As a verb sentence

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

As an adjective sentencewise is

of or relating to a sentence or sentences.

As an adverb sentencewise is

in a manner relating to sentences; sentence by sentence.

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)

    sentencewise

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to a sentence or sentences.
  • * 1975 , Alan Kennedy, Alan Wilkes, Social Science Research Council (Great Britain), Studies in long term memory :
  • Since in these two paradigms the probe words could be taken from the whole sentence, they are called the 'sentencewise'' paradigms ('forward' and 'backward', respectively). The results for these two ' sentencewise paradigms are summarized [...]

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a manner relating to sentences; sentence by sentence.
  • * 1982 , Clark Coolidge, Mine: the one that enters the stories :
  • The size of wall at which I do not greet the night but inch along after it sentencewise .