parse — to analyze a sentence or string of characters into its parts and describe their syntactic roles
Part of speech: VERB
Definition: to analyze a sentence or string of characters into its parts and describe their syntactic roles
Pronunciation (IPA): /pɑːrs/
Example Sentences
- The teacher asked students to parse the Shakespeare quote, but half the class thought it meant 'add more spice to it.'
- The programmer spent three hours trying to parse the messy code left by his predecessor.
- She carefully parsed his text message, analyzing every emoji for hidden meaning.
parse
VERB[/pɑːrs/]
to analyze a sentence or string of characters into its parts and describe their syntactic roles
Breaking sentence into grammatical parts
Parse through sparse code, end the debugging farce!
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🌳Etymology
Origin
Derived from Latin 'pars' meaning 'part' or 'portion'. Originally used in grammar to denote the analysis of a sentence's individual words and their parts of speech. The term evolved into modern computing and data analysis, where it refers to breaking down structured information into interpretable components.
Breakdown
pars (Latin: part, portion) → parse. The word retains its etymological sense of dividing something into constituent parts or components for analysis.
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📝Examples
“The teacher asked students to parse the Shakespeare quote, but half the class thought it meant 'add more spice to it.'”
“The programmer spent three hours trying to parse the messy code left by his predecessor.”
“She carefully parsed his text message, analyzing every emoji for hidden meaning.”
“The AI system can parse multiple languages simultaneously.”
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