Parse

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  parse \parse\ (p[aum]rs), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {parsed}
     (p[aum]rst); p. pr. & vb. n. {parsing}.] [L. pars a part;
     pars orationis a part of speech. See {Part}, n.] (Gram.)
     To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the
     several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by
     government or agreement; to analyze and describe


     grammatically.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it
           over perfectly.                          --Ascham.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  parse
       v : analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure
           to (a sentence)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "parse":
     analyze, block out, bracket, conjugate, decline, detail, enumerate,
     hyphenate, inflect, itemize, mark, number, outline, parenthesize,
     point, punctuate, resolve, scan, schematize
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  parse [from linguistic terminology] vt. 1. To determine the syntactic
     structure of a sentence or other utterance (close to the standard
     English meaning). "That was the one I saw you." "I can't parse that." 2.
     More generally, to understand or comprehend. "It's very simple; you just
     kretch the glims and then aos the zotz." "I can't parse that." 3. Of
     fish, to have to remove the bones yourself. "I object to parsing fish",
     means "I don't want to get a whole fish, but a sliced one is okay". A
     `parsed fish' has been deboned. There is some controversy over whether
     `unparsed' should mean `bony', or also mean `deboned'.