parse
verb[T]
uk/pɑːz/us/pɑːrs/languagespecialized
toseparateasentenceintogrammaticalparts, such assubject,verb, etc.:
对(句子)作语法分析Thesedays,childrenaren'ttaughthow to parse asentence.
computingspecialized
toexaminecomputerdataandchangeit into aformthat can beeasilyreadorunderstood:
Beforeversion3.0, astreamwasconvertedto astringbefore being parsed.
toexamineorthinkabout somethingcarefullyinordertounderstandit:
We parse everymomentforcluesto why he took hislife.
Theeconomistparses therolesofemotion,cognition, andperceptionin theunderstandingofbusinessrisk.
tounderstandsomething:
Somepeopleknowthey'regayfrom an earlyage, butothersdon't parse it until muchlater.
For thosetryingto parse what hethinksabout theproposedchanges, today'shearingwas hard going.
Linguistics: grammatical terms
- ablative
- apposition
- appositive
- appositively
- attributively
- concord
- demonstrative
- feminine
- intensifier
- nominative
- particle
- predicatively
- premodifier
- quantifier
- regularity
- singular
- stative
- syntactic
- syntax
- uncountable
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