Sentence vs. Penalty

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;

Penaltynoun

A legal sentence.

Penaltynoun

A punishment for violating rules of procedure.

Penaltynoun

(finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.

Penaltynoun

(football) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.

Penaltynoun

(ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.

Penaltynoun

Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass.

Penaltynoun

The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine.

Penaltynoun

A handicap.

Penaltynoun

the act of punishing

Penaltynoun

a payment required for not fulfilling a contract

Penaltynoun

the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition;

Penaltynoun

(games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game