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noun(sen-tence)opinion; especially : a conclusion given on request or reached after deliberation
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noun(sen-tence)judgment; specifically : one formally pronounced by a court or judge in a criminal proceeding and specifying the punishment to be inflicted upon the convict
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noun(sen-tence)the punishment so imposed
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verb(sen-tence)to impose a sentence on
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verb(sen-tence)to cause to suffer something
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noun(sen-tence)a sentence in which the principal clause comes first and subordinate modifiers or trailing elements follow
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noun(sen-tence)a statement (as in mathematics) that contains at least one blank or unknown and that becomes true or false when the blank is filled or a quantity is substituted for the unknown
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noun(sen-tence)a usually complex sentence that has no subordinate or trailing elements following its principal clause (as in "yesterday while I was walking down the street, I saw him")
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noun(sen-tence)a sentence containing two or more clauses not connected by the correct conjunction or punctuation
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noun(sen-tence)a sentence that is part of a larger sentence
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noun(sen-tence)a mathematical or logical statement that makes up part of a larger mathematical or logical statement
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noun(sen-tence)a sentence that states the main thought of a paragraph or of a larger unit of discourse and is usually placed at or near the beginning