"parse : (transitive, linguistics) To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the..."

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

- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parse#English

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