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[pahrs, pahrz]

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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.

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 admit of being parsed.

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a system for linking a number of terminals with each other or a mainframe computer in order to share data, etc., usually confined to one office

to place a routine inside another routine that is at a higher hierarchical level

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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), -parsed, -pars·ing.

un·parsed, adjective

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Example Sentences

Very rare is the man whose remarks will parse and whose conversation does not abound in restatements.

Parse the call for proposals thoroughly, and make sure your proposal deals with all the criteria.

Other states with direct democracy are now trying to parse the implications of this.

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Very rare is the man whose remarks will parse and whose conversation does not abound in restatements.

Parse the call for proposals thoroughly, and make sure your proposal deals with all the criteria.

Other states with direct democracy are now trying to parse the implications of this.

Maybe, as you say, you didn't parse the two out clearly enough.

And, depending on the translation you read, some of the prose can also be a little hard to parse.

It's a songwriter's job to parse the endless varieties and fluctuations of love.

Indifference to them may be costly as they parse their nickels to survive instead of buying hard goods think about it.

It is the scientists' job to parse out exactly what is the relevance of our work to the public, as you do here.

As a result, different dentists parse the images differently.

They would be loathe to tell you they cheat, and are a lot craftier in the way they parse words.

And, to speak directly to the example, the reason your phrase is hard to parse is because it was specifically generated to be so.

Even with mountains of data and the tools to parse them, people's tastes remained elusive.

I've been trying to parse how people get around and ifnd their seat.

So this author parsed out the data one way, and you can choose to parse it another way.

Six common statistics that students in search of a quality college should parse carefully.

Now am in mad dash to try to parse and write something with half of the residuals.

And elementary school math should allow one to parse those millions on welfare into percentages.

Krypton has several stable isotopes, the relative abundances of which can be used to parse the gas's source.

For all the esoteric nomenclature scientists have devised to parse the effects of nuclear.

Such an approach might also eventually be able to help parse out a collection of indicators for various developmental disorders.

Maguire can parse a play without telling you what's plain to see.

Your teaching statement can parse your objectives in both categories.

The stats on the cards are also much simpler and easier to parse at a glance.

Authority is a rather mysterious quality, and it's almost impossible to parse it for its components.

If a few say you don't grade fairly, then you have to parse that out and figure out what they may have had a problem with.

So are labels that supply context, bridge gaps, help parse the mysterious and the fragmented.

Let's parse the bit you quote as if it were a prompt.

Find someone who can parse my sentence and you'll get your answer.

No one can parse the movement more succinctly or tellingly.

So the next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument.

Now to get good information you have to triangulate a million different sources, and parse and all sorts of stuff.

That's why studios handsomely pay consultants to parse the results of focus groups.

The health insurance system is so complex that it is hard to parse the blame for this injustice.

As a result, oyster eaters can parse out specific characteristics beyond a clever name.

Learning how to parse the clues correctly is the toughest part, but this one is somewhat straightforward.

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World English Dictionary

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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