parse

  1. Noun.  (linguistics, computing) A successful act of parsing.
  2. Noun.  (linguistics, computing) The result of such an act.
  3. Verb.  (linguistics) To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically.
  4. Verb.  (computing) To split a file or other input into bits of data that can be easily stored or manipulated.

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