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parse

[ pahrs, especially British, pahrz ]

verb (used with object)

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

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

parse

/ ±èɑ˳ú /

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ±è²¹°ù²õ²¹²ú±ô±ð, adjective
  • ˈ±è²¹°ù²õ¾±²Ô²µ, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±è²¹°ù²õ·²¹Â·²ú±ô±ð adjective
  • ±è²¹°ù²õ·±ð°ù noun
  • ³¾¾±²õ·±è²¹°ù²õ±ð verb (used with object) misparsed misparsing
  • ³Ü²Ô·±è²¹°ù²õ±ð»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of parse1

First recorded in 1545–55; from Latin pars “part,†as in pars ÅrÄtiÅnis “part of speechâ€
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of parse1

C16: from Latin pars ( ´Ç°ùÄå³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô¾±²õ ) part (of speech)
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Example Sentences

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It’s hard to parse the degree to which politics shape culture and how much culture shapes our politics.

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They’ve also parsed the president’s denials that he ignored the court, given that in the next breath he falsely claimed that the “radical left†judge — James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S.

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Yet he’s been just as impressive in failure, holding the team together while refusing to publicly parse blame after two recent stunning first-round playoff defeats to the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks.

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Cantrell doesn’t write the simplest of songs to parse, but it seems he wants to be seen, as well as have listeners see parts of themselves in his music.

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That distinction, he argued in a Wednesday seminar hosted by the Institute of Food Technologists, is crucial in parsing the nutritional complexity of modern food processing.

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