Clause vs. Sentence

Clausenoun

(grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.

Clausenoun

(grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is (subordinate) dependent.

Clausenoun

(legal) A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document.

Clauseverb

To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).

Clausenoun

A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.

Clausenoun

A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.

Clausenoun

See Letters clause or Letters close, under Letter.

Clausenoun

(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence

Clausenoun

a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)

Clause

In language, a clause is a constituent that links a semantic predicand (expressed or not) and a semantic predicate. A typical clause consists of a subject and a syntactic predicate, the latter typically a verb phrase, a verb with any objects and other modifiers.

Sentencenoun

(dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.

Sentencenoun

The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

Sentencenoun

A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

Sentencenoun

(obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.

Sentencenoun

(grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.

Sentencenoun

(logic) A formula with no free variables.

Sentencenoun

(computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.

Sentencenoun

(obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.

Sentencenoun

(obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.

Sentencenoun

A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

Sentenceverb

To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.

Sentenceverb

(obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence.

Sentenceverb

(obsolete) To utter sententiously.

Sentencenoun

Sense; meaning; significance.

Sentencenoun

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

Sentencenoun

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

Sentencenoun

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 judicial tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.

Sentencenoun

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

Sentencenoun

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.

Sentenceverb

To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

Sentenceverb

To decree or announce as a sentence.

Sentenceverb

To utter sententiously.

Sentencenoun

a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language;

Sentencenoun

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed;

Sentencenoun

the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned;

Sentenceverb

pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law;