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Audio Help [pahrs, pahrz] Pronunciation Key verb, parsed, pars·ing.

–verb (used with 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.

–verb (used without object)

4.	to admit of being parsed.

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

]

—Related forms

pars·a·ble, adjective

parser, noun

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parse Audio Help   (pärs) Pronunciation Key
v.   parsed, pars·ing, pars·es

v.   tr.

To break (a sentence) down into its component parts of speech with an explanation of the form, function, and syntactical relationship of each part.
To describe (a word) by stating its part of speech, form, and syntactical relationships in a sentence.
1. 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).
2. To make sense of; comprehend: I simply couldn't parse what you just said.
Computer Science To analyze or separate (input, for example) into more easily processed components.

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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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
verb
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.

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