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verb (used with object)

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)

to be able to be parsed; lend itself to parsing: Sorry, but your concluding paragraph simply doesn't parse.

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Origin:
1545–55; < Latin pars part, as in pars ōrātiōnis part of speech

Related forms

pars·a·ble, adjective

pars·er, noun

mis·parse, verb (used with object), mis·parsed, mis·pars·ing.

un·parsed, adjective

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parse (pɑːz)

—vb
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 course code of a computer program to make sure that it is structurally correct before it is compiled and turned into machine code

[C16: from Latin pars (orātionis) part (of speech)]

'parsable

—*adj*

parsing

—n

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Word Origin & History

parse

c.1553, "to state the parts of speech in a sentence," verb use of M.E. pars (n.) "part of speech" (c.1300), from O.Fr. pars, pl. of part "part," from L. pars (see part (n.)) in school question, Quae pars orationis? "What part of speech?"

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parse

[from linguistic terminology] vt.
1. To determine the syntactic structure of a sentence or other utterance (close to the standard English meaning). "That was the one I saw you." "I can't parse that."
2. More generally, to understand or comprehend. "It's very simple; you just kretch the glims and then aos the zotz." "I can't parse that."
3. Of fish, to have to remove the bones yourself. "I object to parsing fish", means "I don't want to get a whole fish, but a sliced one is okay". A `parsed fish' has been deboned. There is some controversy over whether `unparsed' should mean `bony', or also mean `deboned'.

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