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  1. transitive verb To break (a sentence) down into its component parts of speech with an explanation of the form, function, and syntactical relationship of each part.
  2. transitive verb To describe (a word) by stating its part of speech, form, and syntactical relationships in a sentence.
  3. transitive verb To examine closely or subject to detailed analysis, especially by breaking up into components: "What are we missing by parsing the behavior of chimpanzees into the conventional categories recognized largely from our own behavior?” (Stephen Jay Gould).
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  • The block grid makes the content easy to parse, and the simple display of work communicates the work effectively. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Among the many, many shocking and disheartening hard truths laid bare here, the most difficult one to parse is the one that wonders where and how to fire an effective first shot. —  FlickFilosopher.com
  • When manual intervention is required (for example for data drop outs), that is stored in an exceptions file that the scripts can automatically parse, and which are human readable by my colleagues so they know what additional "massaging" of the data has been done (and even better, they are at liberty to make their own changes and see how that affects the outcome). —  RealClimate
  • You don't have to parse, just present her words accurately. —  UUpdates - All updates
  • The next step is to decide whether we need to parse the expression before it is evaluated. —  The Code Project Latest Articles
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  1. Probably from Middle English pars, part of speech, from Latin pars (ōrātiōnis), part (of speech); see perə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also perse, pearse; from L. pars, part: see part. To parse is to tell “quæ pars orationis,” ‘what part of speech’ (a word is); and the verb seems to have arisen from the interrogation “pars ?” i.e. “quæpars orationis?” used by schoolmasters.
 

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