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PARSE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they parse ... he / she / it parses
Past simple: parsed
-ing form: parsing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "parse" is one way to...):
analyse; analyze; break down; dissect; take apart (make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features)
Domain category:
grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something