parse

parse

See also: Parse

English

WOTD – 23 December 2018

Etymology

Possibly from Middle English pars (“parts, shares; parts of speech, grammar”), from Old French pars (plural of part (“part, portion, share”)),[1] from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”),[2] possibly from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; to sell”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɑːz/, [pʰɑːz]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑɹs/, /pɑɹz/

• Audio (GA)

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z, -ɑː(ɹ)s
• Homophone: pass (non-rhotic)

Verb

parse (third-person singular simple present parses, present participle parsing, simple past and past participle parsed)

1. (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. [from mid 16th c.]

   Synonym: construe

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

   This sentence doesn't parse.

Usage notes

Generally speaking, parse is an ergative verb i.e. ambitransitive with the subject of the intransitive form corresponding to the direct object of the transitive form. If a person or program can parse X into Y, then we say that X parses as Y. Note that the last sense is not quite the same as the penultimate; a string only parses if it can be parsed successfully.

Derived terms

• misparse
• parsable
• parser
• unparsable
• wackyparse
• wackyparsing

 

Translations

(linguistics) to resolve into elements

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 解析 (zh) (jiěxī), 剖析 (zh) (pōuxì) Dutch: analyseren (nl), ontleden (nl) Finnish: jäsentää (fi) French: analyser (fr), décomposer (fr) German: analysieren (de) Hebrew: פירק‎ (he) (perék), פענח‎ (he) (pianéakh) Hungarian: elemez (hu) Ido: analizar (io) Italian: analizzare (it) Japanese: 解析する (ja) (かいせきする, kaiseki suru), パーズする (pāzu suru) Korean: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: analisar (pt), decompor (pt) Russian: анализи́ровать (ru) impf (analizírovatʹ), разбира́ть (ru) impf (razbirátʹ), разобра́ть (ru) pf (razobrátʹ) (синтакси́чески OR граммати́чески) Serbo-Croatian: analizirati (sh) Spanish: analizar (es), descomponer (es) Swedish: analysera (sv)

to examine closely — see scrutinize

(computing) to resolve (a string) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar

Chinese: Mandarin: 解析 (zh) (jiěxī), 剖析 (zh) (pōuxì) Finnish: jäsentää (fi) French: parser (fr) Serbo-Croatian: parsirati

(computing) to split data into pieces

Catalan: analitzar (ca) Dutch: ontleden (nl), parsen (nl) Finnish: jäsentää (fi) French: séparer (fr) German: zerteilen (de), parsen (de) Hungarian: elemez (hu) Icelandic: þátta Malay: hurai Maori: poroporo Polish: parsować (pl) impf Portuguese: processar (pt) Serbo-Croatian: parsirati Spanish: procesar (es)

(computing, linguistics) to conform to rules of grammar

Finnish: jäsentyä

Noun

parse (plural parses)

1. (computing, linguistics) An act of parsing; a parsing.

   The parse will fail if the program contains an unrecognised keyword.

2. (computing, linguistics) The result of such an act; a parsing.

   This parse is incorrect and indicates a fault in the parser.

Translations

act of parsing

Chinese: Mandarin: 解析 (zh) (jiěxī) Dutch: ontleding (nl) f, analyse (nl) f Finnish: jäsentäminen, jäsennys (fi), lauseenjäsennys (fi), jäsentely (fi) French: analyse (fr) Japanese: パーズ (pāzu), 解析 (ja) (かいせき, kaiseki) Russian: (граммати́ческий OR синтакси́ческий) ана́лиз (ru) m (análiz), (граммати́ческий OR синтакси́ческий) разбо́р (ru) m (razbór) Serbo-Croatian: parsiranje n Spanish: procesamiento m, análisis (es) m Swedish: parsning c (computing), syntaxanalys c (computing)

result of parsing

Dutch: ontleding (nl) f, analyse (nl) f, parse (nl) m Finnish: jäsennys (fi) Spanish: resultado (es) m, análisis (es) m

References

1. “pars, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 August 2018.
2. “parse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

• parsing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• parse (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Asper, Earps, Pears, Peras, RESPA, Rapes, Spear, Spera, apers, apres, après, après-, aprés, as per, asper, pares, pears, prase, presa, præs., rapes, reaps, sarpe, spare, spear

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpar.se/
• Rhymes: -arse
• Hyphenation: pàr‧se

Verb

parse

1. third-person singular past historic of parere

Participle

parse f pl

1. feminine plural of parso

Synonyms

• (parere): parve

Anagrams

• Serpa, Sprea, aspre, persa, presa, raspe, saper, serpa, spare, spera

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Latin

Participle

parse

1. vocative masculine singular of parsus