parse
/pɑɹs/ verb C2- 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.
- To examine closely; to scrutinize.
- To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
- To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.
- Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid. · This sentence doesn't parse.
He/she/it parses · Past parsed · Past participle parsed · -ing form parsing
Verb forms
- Base form
- parse
- He/she/it
- parses
- Past
- parsed
- Past participle
- parsed
- -ing form
- parsing
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They had analyzed and parsed it and torn it to pieces in general until it was a wonder there was any meaning at all left in it for them, but at least the fair lily maid and Lancelot and Guinevere and King Arthur had become very real people to them, and Anne was devoured by secret regret that she had not been born in Camelot.
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