parse

Meanings

Verb

• 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.
• To examine closely; to scrutinize.
• To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
• To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.
• Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid.

Noun

• An act of parsing; a parsing.
• The result of such an act; a parsing.

Origin

• Possibly from Middle English pars ("parts, shares; parts of speech, grammar"), from Old French pars (plural of part), from Latin pars ("part, piece, share"), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *per- ("to carry forth; to sell").