ALL meanings of parse
parse
P p - abbreviation Technical meaning of PARSE parser 3
- transitive verb parse analyze grammatically 1
- transitive verb parse analyze: computer data 1
- noun Definition of parse 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
- verb with object parse to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc. 1
- verb with object parse to describe (a word in a sentence) grammatically, identifying the part of speech, inflectional form, syntactic function, etc. 1
- verb with object parse 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 parse 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 parse to be able to be parsed; lend itself to parsing: Sorry, but your concluding paragraph simply doesn't parse. 1
- verb parse In grammar, if you parse a sentence, you examine each word and clause in order to work out what grammatical type each one is. 0
- verb parse to assign constituent structure to (a sentence or the words in a sentence) 0
- verb parse (of a word or linguistic element) to play a specified role in the structure of a sentence 0
- verb parse to analyse the source code of a computer program to make sure that it is structurally correct before it is compiled and turned into machine code 0
- verb transitive parse to separate (a sentence) into its parts, explaining the grammatical form and function of each of the parts and their interrelation 0
- verb transitive parse to describe the form, part of speech, and function of (a word in a sentence) 0
- intransitive verb parse to parse a sentence or word 0
- intransitive verb parse to be capable of being parsed 0