Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive 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.
- intransitive verb To describe (a word) by stating its part of speech, form, and syntactical relationships in a sentence.
- intransitive verb To process (linguistic data such as speech or written language) in real time as it is being spoken or read, in order to determine its linguistic structure and meaning.
- intransitive verb To examine closely or subject to detailed analysis, especially by breaking up into components.
- intransitive verb To make sense of; comprehend.
- intransitive verb Computers To analyze or separate (input, for example) into more easily processed components.
- intransitive verb To admit of being parsed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In grammar, to describe grammatically by telling the part of speech of, as a word, or of each word in, as a sentence, defining and describing its grammatical form, and showing its relation to the other words in the sentence; resolve, as a sentence, into its grammatical parts: as, to
parse a line in Virgil. - An obsolete form of
pierce .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb linguistics To
resolve into its elements, as a sentence,pointing out the severalparts of speech , and their relation to each other bygovernment oragreement ; toanalyze and describegrammatically . - verb computing To
split afile or other input intobits of data that can be easilystored ormanipulated . - noun linguistics, computing A successful act of parsing.
- noun linguistics, computing The result of such an act.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Additionally, you could optionally specify a number after the word parse - this would only disable specific settings.
AutoHotkey Community 2009
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Additionally, you could optionally specify a number after the word parse - this would only disable specific settings.
AutoHotkey Community 2009
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The draws took the heat down to the decking and into containers called parse tubes, which housed diapson crystals.
Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000
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I create an instance of the lib and call parse on the RSS.
Fullasagoog 2010
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To start parsing, the application calls parse (), a method of Parser: parser. parse (args [0]); EXAMPLE
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The only way to declare the document encoding we want to parse is to declare it explicitly in the document header.
Zend Developer Zone 2009
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- Text XInclude support (aka parse = "text") - Basic forms support
KDE-Apps.org Content 2008
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Instantiate the PlistParser class and then call the parse method with the filename as a parameter.
Planet PHP 2008
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Instantiate the PlistParser class and then call the parse method with the filename as a parameter.
Planet PHP 2008
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Liquid:: Block initialize method calls parse, which parses each of the tokens, causing each of the tags within the block to be parsed.
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