Usually means: Analyze and break down text.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. parse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. parse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. parse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. parse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Parse, parse: Wordnik
  7. parse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. parse: Wiktionary
  9. parse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. parse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. parse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Parse, parse: Dictionary.com
  13. parse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Parse (company), Parse (disambiguation), Parse (platform), Parse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Parse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. parse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. parse: Rhymezone
  18. parse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. parse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. parse: Free Dictionary
  21. parse: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. parse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. parse: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. parse: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. parse: Netlingo
  3. parse: CCI Computer
  4. Parse: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  5. parse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Parse: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PARSE: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Parse: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parse: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

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▸ verb:  (linguistics, transitive, intransitive) To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To examine closely; to scrutinize.
▸ verb:  (computing, transitive, intransitive) To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
▸ verb:  (computing, transitive) To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.
▸ verb:  (computing, linguistics, intransitive) Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid.
▸ noun:  (computing, linguistics) An act of parsing; a parsing.
▸ noun:  (computing, linguistics) The result of such an act; a parsing.

Similar:
analyze, construe, unpack, grammarize, grammaticalize, analize, loose, decipher, speak, grammarise, more...

Opposite:
misinterpret, misread, misdecode

Types:
top-down, bottom-up, recursive descent, shift-reduce, LR, LL, more...

Phrases:
parse tree, parse error, a parse request language, most vexing parse, parse out, more...

Adjectives:
public, correct, static, syntactic, successful, hard, complete, partial, soft, probable, initial


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Similar:
analyze, construe, unpack, grammarize, grammaticalize, analize, loose, decipher, speak, grammarise, more...

Opposite:
misinterpret, misread, misdecode

Types:
top-down, bottom-up, recursive descent, shift-reduce, LR, LL, more...

Phrases:
parse tree, parse error, a parse request language, most vexing parse, parse out, parse through, difficult to parse, hard to parse, more...

Adjectives:
public, correct, static, syntactic, successful, hard, complete, partial, soft, probable, initial



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