PARSE
What does "PARSE" mean?
To analyze something into its parts, especially the grammar of a sentence or the structure of data.
Meanings
- To break a sentence into its grammatical parts and describe their roles. The teacher asked us to parse the sentence into subject and predicate.
- In computing, to analyze a string of text or data according to a set of rules. The program parses each line of the file into fields. technical
- To examine or make sense of something complex or ambiguous. It took a while to parse what she actually meant. figurative
Did you know?
- To 'parse' a sentence is literally to find its 'parts': the word comes from Latin 'pars orationis', 'part of speech', the question schoolchildren once answered for every word.
Word origin
From Latin 'pars orationis' (part of speech), via the phrase used in schoolroom Latin grammar; English 'parse' literally asks what 'part' of speech a word is.
Remember it
PARSE asks for the PARtS of a sentence - it even hides 'pars', Latin for 'part'.
A little poem
Pull the long sentence open at its seams-
subject, verb, the small bones of its will,
and meaning lies there, plainer than it seems.
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Wordplay
- I tried to parse the cryptic message and couldn't make heads or tails - turns out it had no parts to speak of.
What it teaches
Confusion often dissolves once you name the parts; understanding is mostly careful taking-apart.
Quick facts
What does PARSE mean?
To analyze something into its parts, especially the grammar of a sentence or the structure of data.
Is PARSE a valid word?
Yes — PARSE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PARSE?
PARSE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does PARSE come from?
From Latin 'pars orationis' (part of speech), via the phrase used in schoolroom Latin grammar; English 'parse' literally asks what 'part' of speech a word is.
What can PARSE teach us?
Confusion often dissolves once you name the parts; understanding is mostly careful taking-apart.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.