Adjudication vs. Sentence — What's the Difference?

To study and settle (a dispute or conflict)

A grammatical unit that is syntactically independent and has a subject that is expressed or, as in imperative sentences, understood and a predicate that contains at least one finite verb.

Adjudication is the legal process by which an arbiter or judge reviews evidence and argumentation, including legal reasoning set forth by opposing parties or litigants, to come to a decision which determines rights and obligations between the parties involved.Adjudication can also refer to the processes at dance competitions, in television game shows and at other competitive forums, by which competitors are evaluated and ranked and a winner is found.

The penalty imposed by a law court or other authority upon someone found guilty of a crime or other offense.

To make a decision (in a legal case or proceeding), as where a judge or arbitrator rules on some disputed issue or claim between the parties.

(Archaic) A maxim.

To act as a judge of (a contest or an aspect of a contest).

(Obsolete) An opinion, especially one given formally after deliberation.

To make a decision in a legal case or proceeding

To impose a sentence on (a criminal defendant found guilty, for example).

To study and settle a dispute or conflict.

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

To act as a judge of a contest.

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

The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.

A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

A judgment or sentence.

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

(legal) The decision upon the question of whether the debtor is a bankrupt.

(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 or other punctuation.

(emergency response) The process of identifying the type of material or device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat with corresponding implications for the need to take further action.

(logic) A formula with no free variables.

A process by which land is attached as security or in satisfaction of a debt.

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

The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.

(obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.

A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence.

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

The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt.

A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt.

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

The final judgment in a legal proceeding; the act of pronouncing judgment based on the evidence presented

To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.

(obsolete) To utter sententiously.

Sense; meaning; significance.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

To decree or announce as a sentence.

To utter sententiously.

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

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

The period of time a prisoner is imprisoned;

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