Sentence

v. impose a punishment, penalize, convict

n. (Grammar) grammatical unit usually comprised of a subject and verb (generally begins with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark); judgment specifying the punishment for a crime (Law); prison term, amount of time a person is to be imprisoned

Sentence may refer to:Sentence (linguistics), a unit of language, characterized in most languages by the presence of a finite verbSentence (mathematical logic), a formula with no free variablesOpen sentence, a mathematical sentence which contains variablesSentence (law), the final act of a judge-ruled processSentence (music), the smallest period in a musical composition, an autobiographical graphic novel by MF Grimm, published by Vertigo in 2007"Sentencing" (The Wire episode)
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Noun
1. a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"
(hypernym) string of words, word string, linguistic string
(hyponym) simple sentence
(part-meronym) constituent, grammatical constituent
2. (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise"
(synonym) conviction, judgment of conviction, condemnation
(hypernym) final judgment, final decision
(hyponym) murder conviction
(derivation) condemn, doom
(classification) criminal law
3. the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail"
(synonym) prison term, time
(hypernym) term
(hyponym) hard time
(derivation) condemn, doom
Verb
1. pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison"
(synonym) condemn, doom
(hypernym) declare
(hyponym) foredoom
(entail) convict
(derivation) prison term, time
(classification) law, jurisprudence

n. sentence, maxim

(v. t.)
To utter sententiously.
  

(v. t.)
To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
  

(v. t.)
To decree or announce as a sentence.
  

(n.)
Sense; meaning; significance.
  

(n.)
In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
  

(n.)
An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
  

(n.)
A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
  

(n.)
A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
  

(n.)
A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.