parse
/pɑrs/
noun
- An act or instance of parsing; a grammatical analysis or breakdown.
- The parser gave a clean parse of the entire paragraph.
- Each parse of the sentence revealed a different possible meaning.
- The student's parse of the poem was thorough and accurate.
verb
- To analyze a sentence or string of words by describing its grammatical parts and their relationships.
- The software can parse any English sentence and show its grammatical diagram.
- In linguistics class, we learned how to parse ancient texts to understand their structure.
- The teacher asked the students to parse the complex sentence into subject, verb, and object.
- To examine or interpret something (such as data, code, or a situation) in a careful, detailed way.
- We need to parse the report carefully to understand the key findings.
- She tried to parse his confusing message to figure out what he really meant.
- The computer program can parse large amounts of data to find patterns.
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