sentence

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 [ˈsɛntn̩(t)s]|[ˈsɛnʔn̩(t)s]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. dated
    — The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
  2. 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 child rapist.
  3. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  4. A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm. obsolete
    — Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.
  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.
    — Near-synonym: clause
  6. A formula with no free variables.
  7. Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
  8. Sense; meaning; significance. obsolete
    — Noght o word spak he moore than was neede, / And that was seyd in forme and reverence / And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence […]
  9. One's opinion; manner of thinking. obsolete
    — My sentence is for open war.
  10. A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question. archaic
    — [I]f it may bee lawfull to iudge or giue any ſentence thereof, it [the author of the book of Ruth] was either Samuell, or ſome other godly Prophet vnder the raigne of Saule, [...]
动词 v.
  1. To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment. transitive
    — The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
  2. To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence. especially,poetic
    — “We are empowered to deliver thee to prison; yea, the law commands us to sentence death upon the abettors of this mischief.[…]"
  3. To utter sententiously. obsolete
    — Let me heare one wise man sentence it, rather then twenty Fooles, garrulous in their lengthened tattle.

词形变化

sentences plural sentences present,singular,third-person sentencing participle,present sentenced participle,past sentenced past

词汇关系

近义词
verdict conviction
上位词
formula
下位词
complex sentence compound sentence conditional sentence equative sentence postilion sentence simple sentence
衍生词
circle sentence cleft sentence composite sentence Concord sentence death sentence donkey sentence foresentence fused sentence garden-path sentence garden path sentence hypersentence incomplete sentence intersentence intrasentence jail sentence kernel sentence life sentence mandatory sentence midsentence minor sentence multisentence nonsentence number sentence periodic sentence presentence prison sentence pro-sentence pseudosentence run-on sentence sentegraph sentenceable sentence adverb sentence case sentence connective sentence element sentence-final particle sentence fragment sentenceful sentencehood sentencelike sentence mix sentenceness sentencewise sentoid slifting subsentence suspended sentence topic sentence Wenker sentence oversentence resentence sentencer unsentenced
相关词
sentential

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
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