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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly from Middle English pars (“parts, shares; parts of speech, grammar”), from Old French pars (plural of part (“part, portion, share”)),[1] from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”),[2] possibly from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; to sell”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɑːz/, [pʰɑːz]
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɑɹs/, [pʰɑɹs], [pʰɑɹz]
Audio (GA) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z, -ɑː(ɹ)s
Verb[edit]
parse (third-person singular simple present parses, present participle parsing, simple past and past participle parsed)
- (linguistics, transitive, intransitive) To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically. [from mid 16th c.]
- Synonym: construe
- (transitive) To examine closely; to scrutinize.
- (computing, transitive, intransitive) To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
- (computing, transitive) To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.
- (computing, linguistics, intransitive) Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid.
- This sentence doesn't parse.
Usage notes[edit]
Generally speaking, parse is an ergative verb, i.e. ambitransitive with the subject of the intransitive form corresponding to the direct object of the transitive form. If a person or program can parse X into Y, then we say that X parses as Y. Note that the last sense is not quite the same as the penultimate; a string only parses if it can be parsed successfully.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
(linguistics) to resolve into elements
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to examine closely — see scrutinize
(computing) to resolve (a string) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar
(computing) to split data into pieces
(computing, linguistics) to conform to rules of grammar
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Noun[edit]
parse (plural parses)
- (computing, linguistics) An act of parsing.
- The parse will fail if the program contains an unrecognised keyword.
- (computing, linguistics) The result of such an act.
- This parse is incorrect and indicates a fault in the parser.
Translations[edit]
act of parsing
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result of parsing
References[edit]
- ^ “pars, v.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ “parse” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.
Further reading[edit]
parsing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - parse (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
- Asper, Earps, Pears, Peras, RESPA, Rapes, Spear, Spera, apers, apres, après, aprés, as per, asper, pares, pears, prase, presa, præs., rapes, reaps, sarpe, spare, spear
Italian[edit]
Verb[edit]
parse f
Synonyms[edit]
- (parere): parve
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
parse
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