parse
verb /pɑːz/
/pɑːrs/
(grammar)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they parse | /pɑːz/ /pɑːrs/ |
| he / she / it parses | /ˈpɑːzɪz/ /ˈpɑːrsɪz/ |
| past simple parsed | /pɑːzd/ /pɑːrst/ |
| past participle parsed | /pɑːzd/ /pɑːrst/ |
| -ing form parsing | /ˈpɑːzɪŋ/ /ˈpɑːrsɪŋ/ |
- parse something to divide a sentence into parts and describe the grammar of each word or partTopics Languagec2Oxford Collocations DictionaryParse is used with these nouns as the object:
- sentence
Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps from Middle English pars ‘parts of speech’, from Old French pars ‘parts’ (influenced by Latin pars ‘part’).