decision vs sentence

decision

noun
  • Firmness of conviction. 

  • A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest. 

  • A choice or judgement. 

  • A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher. 

  • The act of deciding. 

verb
  • To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout 

sentence

noun
  • A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime. 

  • 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 or other punctuation. 

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

  • Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. 

  • A formula with no free variables. 

verb
  • To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence. 

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

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