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parse (verb, noun):
transitive verb
1a: to divide (a sentence) into grammatical parts and identify the parts and their relations to each other
b: to describe (a word) grammatically by stating the part of speech and explaining the inflection (see inflection sense 2a) and syntactical relationships
2: to examine in a minute way : analyze critically
intransitive verb
1: to give a grammatical description of a word or a group of words
2: to admit of being parsed
noun
: a product or an instance of parsing
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : If parse brings up memories of learning the parts of speech in school, you’ve done your homework regarding this word. Parsing sentences, after all, is part and parcel of learning to read and write. Parse comes from the first element of the Latin term for “part of speech,” pars orationis. It’s an old word that has been used since at least the mid 1500s, but it was not until the late 1700s that parse graduated to its extended, non-grammar-related sense of “to examine in a minute way” or “to analyze critically.”
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