sentence

• Noun

  1. The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
  2. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  3. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  4. (obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
  5. A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
  6. A formula with no free variables.
  7. Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
  8. (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
  9. (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.
  10. A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

• Verb