parse
Audio Help [pahrs, pahrz] Pronunciation Key verb, parsed, pars·ing.
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Audio Help [pahrs, pahrz] Pronunciation Key verb, parsed, pars·ing. –verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
| 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. | Computers. to analyze (a string of characters) in order to associate groups of characters with the syntactic units of the underlying grammar. |
| 4. | to admit of being parsed. |
[Origin: 1545–55; < L pars part, as in pars ōrātiōnis part of speech
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pars·a·ble, adjective
parser, noun
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v. parsed, pars·ing, pars·es v. tr.
v. intr. To admit of being parsed: sentences that do not parse easily. [Probably from Middle English pars, part of speech, from Latin pars (ōrātiōnis), part (of speech); see perə-2 in Indo-European roots.] pars'er n. |
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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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| analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence) |
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Parse
Parse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Parsing.] [L. pars a part; pars orationis a part of speech. See Part, n.] (Gram.) 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. Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it over perfectly. --Ascham.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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