Syllable vs Sentence - What's the difference?
syllable | sentence |
(linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.
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The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
* Hooker
* Shakespeare
(poetic) To utter in syllables.
(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.
As nouns the difference between syllable and sentence
is that syllable is (linguistics) a unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables while sentence is (obsolete) sense; meaning; significance.As verbs the difference between syllable and sentence
is that syllable is (poetic) to utter in syllables while sentence is to declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.syllable
English
Noun
(en noun)- Before any syllable of the law of God was written.
- Who dare speak / One syllable against him?
Derived terms
* monosyllable * polysyllable * quadrisyllable * quinquesyllable * syllabary * syllabatim * syllabic * syllabification * syllabify * trisyllable * words of one syllableVerb
(syllabl)- Aery tongues that syllable men's names — Milton.
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)