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parse

[pahrs, 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.Ģżto 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

/ ±čɑː³ś /

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

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • parsable adjective
  • parser noun
  • misparse verb (used with object)
  • unparsed adjective
  • ˈ±č²¹°ł²õ²¹²ś±ō±š adjective
  • ˈ±č²¹°ł²õ¾±²Ō²µ noun
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of parse1

First recorded in 1545–55; from Latin pars ā€œpart,ā€ as in pars ōrātiōnis ā€œpart of speechā€
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of parse1

C16: from Latin pars ( “ǰłÄå³Ł¾±“DzԾ±²õ ) part (of speech)
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Example Sentences

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The right wing is going to parse the video looking for that lunge and saying Padilla was aggressive.

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James Joyce’s "Ulysses" rained em dashes on winding sentences that he had already stripped of quotation marks, resulting in prose so unruly that numerous reading groups are devoted specifically to parsing it.

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On X, many Silicon Valley executives along with Maga-world influencers were picking sides and parsing each of the back-and-forth messages posted by the president and the world's richest man.

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It's difficult to parse out what, if any, part of Baldoni's allegations are true, but it would seem that Lively has been instrumental in dragging Swift into her fight.

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To help you parse through the offerings, here’s a list of 10 films not to miss at the fest.

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