What's the difference between person and sentient?

Person


Definition:

  • (n.) A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
  • (n.) The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
  • (n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
  • (n.) A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
  • (n.) A parson; the parish priest.
  • (n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
  • (n.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.
  • (n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
  • (v. t.) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
  • (2) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
  • (3) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
  • (4) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
  • (5) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
  • (6) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
  • (7) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
  • (8) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
  • (9) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
  • (10) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
  • (11) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (12) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
  • (13) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
  • (14) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
  • (15) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
  • (16) An additional 1.3% of the persons studied needed this operation, but were unfit for surgery.
  • (17) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
  • (18) Of 573 tests in 127 persons, a positive response occurred in 68 tests of 51 patients.
  • (19) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
  • (20) Fifteen patients of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) were detected out of 2500 persons of Maheshwari community surveyed.

Sentient


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.
  • (n.) One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both record, with power and sentient humanity, the vortex of war in our world today, and the millions these wars scatter and shatter across it, not least to Europe’s shores.
  • (2) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
  • (3) "The passions are perfectly unknown to her ... the unseen seat of life and the sentient target of death - this Miss Austen ignores."
  • (4) (Sentient describes the state where partial or total awareness is elicited by stimulation).
  • (5) Ever since this exhibitionist drivel began, otherwise sentient people have been sobbing into their popcorn about thwarted love and the passing of time.
  • (6) Long before they tucked into the starters there was something whiffy about the relationship between No 10 and News International: why did the prime minister stand by his PR man long after most sentient people had concluded that his denials of involvement in phone-hacking were risible?
  • (7) Click here for the Paddington trailer There was a swift online reaction to the still image from the film pictured above, in which Paddington looks less like the harmlessly bumbling bear of Michael Bond's books and more a malevolent creature, disturbingly sentient enough to dress itself in a duffel coat.
  • (8) Unlike Teletubbies, which featured sentient vacuum cleaners and characters with TV screens on their abdomens, this show doesn't rub our faces in the fact that we are slackly farming our children out to the electric babysitter; instead, it has a faintly folky, storybook quality.
  • (9) Tagline "Sometimes life's second chances come in small packages" Cool Gel Attacks Photograph: James Mccauley Based on an incident in 2006 where packs of cooling gel were found in rural Thailand and mistaken by some for aliens, Cool Gel Attacks offers a "knee-slapping look" at what might have happened had the gel packs indeed been sentient.
  • (10) He reinvigorated a minor DC title, Swamp Thing – a sort of sentient bog monster – with his now-familiar penchant for supernatural mysticism, psychedelic prose and adult characterisation.
  • (11) Central heating alone induced sweating responses and the central temperature thresholds of sweating were inversely related to the ambient (sentient skin) temperatures.
  • (12) He criticised "materialistic technology" in his eight-minute speech and said greed had "unbalanced the ecosystems, contaminated the environments, caused natural disasters, spread epidemics, induced wars and hence endangered all sentient beings now and in future", according to an official translation of his speech.
  • (13) What I have chosen as my concern, in the foregoing, is not a rough survey of conceptions of human nature--whether man is good, bad, or indifferent; a rational creature or essentially a sentient one; whether man's nature has ever been the same' or whether 'man makes himself', creatively.
  • (14) Where mo-cap can add value is for films that attempt to respond to humanity's essential 21st-century passions: our essential loneliness as a sentient species, not mutually exclusive with the terror that we might one day be supplanted at the top of the intelligence tree.
  • (15) Johnny Depp plays Dr Will Caster, an artificial intelligence researcher who is willing to sacrifice himself to create a sentient machine.
  • (16) As sentient beings we all know this, but it’s my public duty to remind you of the fact.
  • (17) It was beyond suppression and therefore beyond any sentient move to wish it away.
  • (18) The Matrix dissolved around me, still a virgin, and barely sentient.
  • (19) Let's just settle down quietly – pushing meddling politicos out of the action – and decide, as sentient stakeholders, what we want to do next.
  • (20) From sentient marine mammals to apparently downed airliners and the drastic effects of climate change, the world's oceans, and what we do to them, may be the last great battleground.