parser

parse

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Definitions of parser word

verb with object parser to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc. 1
verb with object parser to describe (a word in a sentence) grammatically, identifying the part of speech, inflectional form, syntactic function, etc. 1
verb with object parser to analyze (something, as a speech or behavior) to discover its implications or uncover a deeper meaning: Political columnists were in their glory, parsing the president's speech on the economy in minute detail. 1
verb with object parser Computers. to analyze (a string of characters) in order to associate groups of characters with the syntactic units of the underlying grammar. 1
verb without object parser to be able to be parsed; lend itself to parsing: Sorry, but your concluding paragraph simply doesn't parse. 1
noun Definition of parser in Technology (language) An algorithm or program to determine the syntactic structure of ("parse") a sentence or string of symbols in some language. A parser normally takes as input a sequence of tokens output by a lexical analyser. It may produce some kind of abstract syntax tree as output. A parser may be produced automatically from a grammar by a parser generators such as yacc. A parser is normally part of some larger program, like a compiler, which takes the output of the parser and attempts to extract meaning from it in some way, e.g. translating it into another language. 1

before 1545

One of the 30% oldest English words

1545-55; < Latin pars part, as in pars ōrātiōnis part of speech

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 85% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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