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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
parse       [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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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
parse       (pärs)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   parsed, pars·ing, pars·es

v.   tr.
  1. To break (a sentence) down into its component parts of speech with an explanation of the form, function, and syntactical relationship of each part.
  2. 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.
  4. 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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parser

noun
a computer program that divides code up into functional components; "compilers must parse source code in order to translate it into object code" 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

parser language
An algorithm or program to determine the syntactic structure of a sentence or string of symbols in some language. A parser normally takes as input a sequence of tokens output by a lexical analyser. It may produce some kind of abstract syntax tree as output. One of the best known parser generators is yacc.
(1997-07-21)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Parser

Pars"er\, n. One who parses.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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