The difference between Convict and Sentence

When used as nouns, convict means a person convicted of a crime by a judicial body, whereas sentence means the decision or judgement of a jury or court.

When used as verbs, convict means as a result of legal proceedings, of a crime, of charges, on charges of something, whereas sentence means to declare a sentence on a convicted person.

check bellow for the other definitions of Convict and Sentence

  1. Convict as a verb (transitive):

    to find guilty as a result of legal proceedings, of a crime, of charges, on charges of something informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act

  2. Convict as a verb (esp. religious):

    to convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something)

  1. Convict as a noun (legal):

    A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.

  2. Convict as a noun:

    A person deported to a penal colony.

  3. Convict as a noun:

    The convict cichlid (), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.

  4. Convict as a noun:

    A common name for the sheepshead (), owing to its black and gray stripes.

  1. Sentence as a noun (dated):

    The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.

    Examples:

    "The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second."

  2. Sentence as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler."

  3. Sentence as a noun:

    A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

  4. Sentence as a noun (obsolete):

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

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Broome"

  5. Sentence as a noun (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.

    Examples:

    "The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard."

  6. Sentence as a noun (logic):

    A formula with no free variables.

  7. Sentence as a noun (computing theory):

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

  8. Sentence as a noun (obsolete):

    Sense; meaning; significance.

  9. Sentence as a noun (obsolete):

    One's opinion; manner of thinking.

  10. Sentence as a noun (now, rare):

    A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

  1. Sentence as a verb:

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

    Examples:

    "The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine."

  2. Sentence as a verb (obsolete):

    To decree or announce as a sentence.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  3. Sentence as a verb (obsolete):

    To utter sententiously.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Feltham"

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