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parsing

[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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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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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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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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"But in a hundred high schools and colleges, this warfare against common-sense still goes on. Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin, and as soon as he leaves the University, as it is ludicrously called, he shuts those books for the last time. Some thousands of young men are graduated at our colleges in this country every year, and the persons who, at forty years, still read Greek, can all be counted on your hand. I never met with ten. Four or five persons I have seen who read Plato. But is not this absurd, that the whole liberal talent of this country should be directed in its best years on studies which lead to nothing?"

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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