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English
Etymology
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
Verb
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.
- 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
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.
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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: פירק (he) (perék), פענח (he) (pianéakh)
- Hungarian: elemez (hu)
- Ido: analizar (io)
- 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) pf (razobrátʹ) (синтакси́чески OR граммати́чески)
- Serbo-Croatian: analizirati (sh)
- Spanish: analizar (es), descomponer (es), desglosar (es), diseccionar (es), disecar (es)
- Swedish: analysera (sv)
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(computing) to split data into pieces
Noun
parse (plural parses)
- (computing, linguistics) An act of parsing; a parsing.
The parse will fail if the program contains an unrecognised keyword.
- (computing, linguistics) The result of such an act; a parsing.
This parse is incorrect and indicates a fault in the parser.
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Further reading
Anagrams
- rapes, après, Pears, prase, as per, Spera, presa, apers, spaer, RESPA, pears, Spare, après-, reaps, præs., apres, Rapes, Earps, Asper, Presa, aprés, spear, Spear, Peras, spare, asper, pares, sarpe
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
parse
- third-person singular past historic of parere
Etymology 2
Participle
parse f pl
- feminine plural of parso
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Latin
Participle
parse
- vocative masculine singular of parsus