Sentence

['sent(ə)ns] or ['sɛntəns]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; 'he always spoke in grammatical sentences'.

(verb.) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; 'He was condemned to ten years in prison'.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) Sense; meaning; significance.

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

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

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

(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.

(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.

(v. t.) To utter sententiously.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Decision, judgment, determination.[2]. (Common Law.) Condemnation, doom, judgment passed on a criminal.[3]. (Civil and Admiralty Law.) Judicial decree.[4]. Period, proposition.

v. a. Doom, condemn, pass judgment upon.

巴尔德手打

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Judgment, decree, decision, doom, phrase, passage,[See OBSTINATE]

埃尔顿校對

解釋/意思:

n. opinion: a judgment pronounced on a criminal by a court or judge: a maxim: (gram.) a number of words containing a complete thought: sense: meaning: matter.—v.t. to pronounce judgment on: to condemn.—n. Sen′tencer one who sentences.—adj. Senten′tial pertaining to a sentence: comprising sentences.—adv. Senten′tially.—adj. Senten′tious abounding with sentences or maxims: short and pithy in expression: bombastic or affected in speech.—adv. Senten′tiously.—n. Senten′tiousness brevity with strength.—Master of the Sentences the great 12th-century schoolman Peter Lombard (died 1160) from his work Sententiarum Libri IV. an arranged collection of sentences from Augustine &c.

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