Utterance vs. Sentence — What's the Difference?

In spoken language analysis, an utterance is the smallest unit of speech. It is a continuous piece of speech beginning and ending with a clear pause.

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.

The act of uttering; vocal expression.

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

The power of speaking; speech

(Archaic) A maxim.

A manner of speaking

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

Something uttered or expressed; a statement.

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

The uttermost end or extremity; the bitter end.

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

An act of uttering.

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

Something spoken.

A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

The ability to speak.

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

A manner of speaking.

(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.

(obsolete) A sale made by offering to the public.

(logic) A formula with no free variables.

(obsolete) An act of putting in circulation.

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

The utmost extremity, especially of a fight; bodily harm or death.

(obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.

The act of uttering.

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

Sale by offering to the public.

A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

Power or style of speaking; as, a good utterance.

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

Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes.

To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.

Vocal expression; articulation; speech.

(obsolete) To utter sententiously.

The last extremity; the end; death; outrance.

Sense; meaning; significance.

The use of uttered sounds for auditory communication

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;