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1sentence — sen·tence 1 / sent əns, ənz/ n [Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from sentire to feel, think, express an opinion] 1: a judgment formally pronouncing the punishment to be inflicted on one convicted of a… …
2Sentence completion tests — are a class of semi structured projective techniques. Sentence completion tests typically provide respondents with beginnings of sentences, referred to as “stems,” and respondents then complete the sentences in ways that are meaningful to them.… …
3sentence — The judgment formally pronounced by the court or judge upon the defendant after his conviction in a criminal prosecution, imposing the punishment to be inflicted, usually in the form of a fine, incarceration, or probation. See e.g. 18 U.S.C.A. No …
4Sentence (law) — Criminal procedure Criminal trials and convictions …
5Sentence (linguistics) — In the field of linguistics, a sentence is an expression in natural language, and often defined to indicate a grammatical unit consisting of one or more words that generally bear minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it.… …
6Sentence diagram — X bar theory graph of the sentence He studies linguistics at the university. IP = Inflectional phrase. In pedagogy, a sentence diagram is a pictorial representation of the grammatical structure of a natural language sentence. A sentence diagram… …
7Sentence of Death — Infobox Album Name = Sentence of Death Type = EP Artist = Destruction Released = 1984 Recorded = September 1984 at the Caet Studio in Berlin, Germany Genre = Speed metal Black metal Length = Label = SteamhammerMetal Blade Records Producer =… …
8length — n British 1. a six month prison sentence 2. the penis. The word is almost invaria bly used in the phrase slip someone a length …
9maximum sentence — The longest sentence provided by statute for a particular criminal offense. A limit placed by statute upon the length of the sentence of an habitual criminal. State v Malusky, 59 ND 501, 230 NW 735, 71 ALR 190. See indeterminate sentence …
10Conditional sentence (Canada) — A conditional sentence is a non custodial punishment for crime in Canada. Contents 1 Description 2 Administration 2.1 Breach of a Conditional Sentence 2.2 …
