Sentence

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Sentence

Sentence : வாக்கியம், சொற்றொடர், வசனம்

Sentence : வாக்கியம்

Sentence : வாக்கியம்

Sentence : தீர்ப்பு

Sentence definition

Noun.

  1. Sense; meaning; significance.
  2. An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
  3. A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
  4. 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.
  5. A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
  6. 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.

Transitive verb.

  1. To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
  2. To decree or announce as a sentence.
  3. To utter sententiously.