parse

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /pɑːz/ or [pʰɑːz]
• (US) IPA ^(key): /pɑrs/ or [pʰɑrs] or [pʰɑrz]

• Audio (US)

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• Audio (AU)

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Verb

Plain form parse

Third-person singular parses

Past tense parsed

Past participle parsed

Present participle parsing

1. (transitive) If you parse a word, a statement, a sentence, etc., you use its parts to think about a meaning that is not clear.
2. (transitive), (grammar) If you parse a sentence, you name the parts of speech of each word and their relations to each other; you analyze and describe it in grammatical terms.
3. (transitive), (computing) If a computer parses a file or some other input, it breaks it into smaller groups for easier computing.