Parse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To break (a sentence) down into its component parts of speech with an explanation of the form, function, and syntactical relationship of each part.
  • v. To describe (a word) by stating its part of speech, form, and syntactical relationships in a sentence.
  • v. To examine closely or subject to detailed analysis, especially by breaking up into components: "What are we missing by parsing the behavior of chimpanzees into the conventional categories recognized largely from our own behavior?” ( Stephen Jay Gould).
  • v. To make sense of; comprehend: I simply couldn't parse what you just said.
  • v. Computer Science To analyze or separate (input, for example) into more easily processed components.
  • verb-intransitive. To admit of being parsed: sentences that do not parse easily.
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  • v. To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically.
  • v. To split a file or other input into bits of data that can be easily stored or manipulated.
  • n. A successful act of parsing.
  • n. The result of such an act.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In grammar, to describe grammatically by telling the part of speech of, as a word, or of each word in, as a sentence, defining and describing its grammatical form, and showing its relation to the other words in the sentence; resolve, as a sentence, into its grammatical parts: as, to parse a line in Virgil.
  • An obsolete form of pierce.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)
    • Verb Form
    parsed    parses    parsing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    analyze    take apart    dissect    breakdown    analyse   
    Form
    parsed    parsing    wackyparsing    parser    wackyparse    misparse   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    carse    farce    marse    sparse   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    parser    algorithm    ogniuno   
     
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