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parse
[ pahrs, especially British, pahrz ]
verb (used with object)
, parsed, pars·ing.
- to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- to describe (a word in a sentence) grammatically, identifying the part of speech, inflectional form, syntactic function, etc.
- to analyze (something, as a speech or behavior) to discover its implications or uncover a deeper meaning:
Political columnists were in their glory, parsing the president's speech on the economy in minute detail.
- Computers. to analyze (a string of characters) in order to associate groups of characters with the syntactic units of the underlying grammar.
verb (used without object)
, parsed, pars·ing.
- to be able to be parsed; lend itself to parsing:
Sorry, but your concluding paragraph simply doesn't parse.
parse
/ pɑːz /
verb
- to assign constituent structure to (a sentence or the words in a sentence)
- intr (of a word or linguistic element) to play a specified role in the structure of a sentence
- computing to analyse the source code of a computer program to make sure that it is structurally correct before it is compiled and turned into machine code
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Derived Forms
- ˈparsable, adjective
- ˈparsing, noun
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Other Words From
- pars·a·ble adjective
- pars·er noun
- mis·parse verb (used with object) misparsed misparsing
- un·parsed adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of parse1
First recorded in 1545–55; from Latin pars “part,” as in pars ōrātiōnis “part of speech”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of parse1
C16: from Latin pars ( orātionis ) part (of speech)
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