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parse

[ pahrs, especially British, pahrz ]

verb (used with object)

, parsed, pars·ing.
  1. to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
  2. to describe (a word in a sentence) grammatically, identifying the part of speech, inflectional form, syntactic function, etc.
  3. 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.

  4. 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.
  1. to be able to be parsed; lend itself to parsing:

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

parse

/ pɑːz /

verb

  1. to assign constituent structure to (a sentence or the words in a sentence)
  2. intr (of a word or linguistic element) to play a specified role in the structure of a sentence
  3. 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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Example Sentences

It’s worth it, then, to spend some time parsing through what, exactly, the reporting says, what the specific denials are, and how they match with the facts as we know them.

From Vox

In a new column, VOSD Editor in Chief Scott Lewis parses the decision and slams officials for refusing to prioritize the physical reopening of schools.

We just need to parse what “winning” means in terms of biology.

Because neurons aren’t packed together the same way between different brain regions, this provides a way to parse the brain into areas that can be further studied.

To understand the effects of Covid-19 going forward, however, economists within and outside the US government are parsing very different sets of data.

From Quartz

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