parse

See also: Parse

English

WOTD – 23 December 2018

Etymology

Possibly from Middle English pars (“parts, shares; parts of speech, grammar”), from Old French pars (plural of part (“part, portion, share”)), from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; to sell”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɑːz/, /pʰɑːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑɹs/, /pʰɑɹs/, /pʰɑɹz/

• Audio (GA)

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z, -ɑː(ɹ)s

Verb

parse (third-person singular simple present parses, present participle parsing, simple past and past participle parsed)

1. (transitive, linguistics) 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

2. (transitive, by extension) To examine closely; to scrutinize.
3. (transitive, by extension, computing) To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.
4. (transitive, by extension, computing) To split a file or other input into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
5. (intransitive, computing, linguistics) Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid.

   This sentence doesn’t parse.

Derived terms

Terms derived from parse

• misparse
• parsable
• parser

• unparsable
• wackyparse
• wackyparsing

Translations

(linguistics) to resolve into elements

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解析 (zh) (jiěxī), 剖析 (zh) (pōuxì)

• Dutch: analyseren (nl), ontleden (nl)
• Finnish: jäsentää (fi)
• French: analyser (fr), décomposer (fr)
• German: analysieren (de)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can

• Hungarian: elemez (hu)
• Italian: analizzare (it)
• Japanese: 解析する (ja) (かいせきする, kaiseki suru), パーズする (pāzu suru)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: analisar (pt), decompor (pt)
• Russian: анализи́ровать (ru) impf (analizírovatʹ), разбира́ть (ru) impf (razbirátʹ), разобра́ть (ru) (razobrátʹ) (синтакси́чески OR граммати́чески) pf
• Spanish: analizar (es), descomponer (es)
• Swedish: analysera (sv)

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

• Catalan: analitzar (ca)
• Dutch: ontleden (nl), parsen (nl)
• Finnish: jäsentää (fi)
• German: zerteilen (de), parsen (de)

• Hungarian: elemez (hu)
• Icelandic: þátta
• Portuguese: processar (pt)
• Spanish: procesar (es)

(computing, linguistics) to conform to rules of grammar

Noun

parse (plural parses)

1. (computing, linguistics) An act of parsing.
2. (computing, linguistics) The result of such an act.

Translations

act of parsing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解析 (zh) (jiěxī)

• Dutch: ontleding (nl) f, analyse (nl) f
• Finnish: jäsentäminen, jäsennys (fi), lauseenjäsennys (fi), jäsentely (fi)
• French: analyse (fr)

• Japanese: パーズ (pāzu), 解析 (ja) (かいせき, kaiseki)
• Russian: (граммати́ческий OR синтакси́ческий) ана́лиз (ru) m (análiz), (граммати́ческий OR синтакси́ческий) разбо́р (ru) m (razbór)
• Spanish: procesamiento m, análisis (es) m
• Swedish: parsning c (computing), syntaxanalys c (computing)

result of parsing

• Dutch: ontleding (nl) f, analyse (nl) f, parse (nl) m
• Finnish: jäsennys (fi)

• Spanish: resultado (es) m, análisis (es) m

Further reading

• parsing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• parse (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• 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

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Italian

Verb

parse f

1. feminine plural of parso
2. third-person singular past historic of parere

Synonyms

• (parere): parve

Anagrams

• aspre, persa, presa, saper, spare, spera

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Latin

Participle

parse

1. vocative masculine singular of parsus