Synonyms

parse

American

[pahrs, pahrz] / pɑrs, pɑrz /

verb (used with object)

parsed, parsing

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, parsing

to be able to be parsed; lend itself to parsing.

Sorry, but your concluding paragraph simply doesn't parse.

parse British

/ 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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Other Word Forms

misparse verb (used with object)
parsable adjective
parser noun
parsing noun
unparsed adjective

Etymology

Origin of parse

First recorded in 1545–55; from Latin pars “part,” as in pars ōrātiōnis “part of speech”

Example Sentences

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Investors parse comments from Williams especially closely, given his role as vice chair of the Fed’s policy committee and his close working relationship with Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

From The Wall Street Journal

The pivotal U.S. jobs report for December is supposed to be the first normal one since the government shutdown, but it could prove devilishly hard for investors to parse.

From MarketWatch

Keep that in mind as you both parse through the options.

From MarketWatch

Isaac: I wish I could really go back and like just parse it all out.

From Los Angeles Times

Instead, it has issued guidance for the following quarter, which many investors parse for signs of sequential improvement, or that the business is improving quarter by quarter.

From Barron's

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