parse
pronunciation
How to pronounce parse in British English:
UK [pɑ:z]
How to pronounce parse in American English:
US [pɑrs]
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- Verb:
- analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)
Word Origin
- parse
- parse: see part
- parse (v.)
- 1550s, "to state the parts of speech in a sentence," verb use of Middle English pars (n.) "part of speech" (c. 1300), from Old French pars, plural of part "part," from Latin pars (see part (n.)) in school question, Quae pars orationis? "What part of speech?" Transferred (non-grammatical) use is from 1788. Pars was a common plural of part (n.) in early Middle English. Related: Parsed; parsing.
Example
- 1. We spent five days with it to parse through the hoopla and find out for ourselves .
- 2. Because of this , it 's difficult to parse through other factors that would skew the results .
- 3. Now for moms : how to parse all the conflicting information about breastfeeding without going nuts ?
- 4. Investors are expected to closely parse the economic changes expected from spanish prime minister mariano rajoy on friday .
- 5. Paradoxically , by increasing surveillance-and using new techniques to parse that data effectively-invasions of privacy , while all the more ubiquitous , could become less noticeable and disruptive .