# parse
## English
### Etymology

Possibly from Middle English pars (“parts, shares; parts of speech, grammar”), from Old French pars (plural of part (“part, portion, share”)), from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; to sell”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɑːz/, [pʰɑːz]
* (General American) IPA: /pɑɹs/, /pɑɹz/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z, -ɑː(ɹ)s
* Homophone: pass (non-rhotic, trap–bath split)

### Verb

parse (third-person singular simple present parses, present participle parsing, simple past and past participle parsed)
* (linguistics, transitive, intransitive) 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.]
    Synonym: construe
* (transitive) To examine closely; to scrutinize.
* (computing, transitive, intransitive) To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
* (computing, transitive) To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.
* (computing, linguistics, intransitive) Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid.
    This sentence doesn't parse.

#### Usage notes

Generally speaking, parse is an ergative verb i.e. ambitransitive with the subject of the intransitive form corresponding to the direct object of the transitive form. If a person or program can parse X into Y, then we say that X parses as Y. Note that the last sense is not quite the same as the penultimate; a string only parses if it can be parsed successfully.

#### Derived terms

* misparse
* parsable
* parser
* unparsable
* wackyparse
* wackyparsing

#### Translations
### Noun

parse (plural parses)
* (computing, linguistics) An act of parsing; a parsing.
    The parse will fail if the program contains an unrecognised keyword.
* (computing, linguistics) The result of such an act; a parsing.
    This parse is incorrect and indicates a fault in the parser.

#### Derived terms

* most vexing parse
* parse tree

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “pars, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 August 2018.
* ↑ “parse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* parsing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* parse (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* rapes, après, Pears, prase, as per, Spera, presa, apers, spaer, RESPA, pears, Spare, après-, reaps, præs., apres, Rapes, Earps, Asper, Presa, aprés, spear, Spear, Peras, spare, asper, pares, sarpe

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpar.se/
* Rhymes: -arse
* Hyphenation: pàr‧se

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

parse
* third-person singular past historic of parere

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

parse f pl
* feminine plural of parso

##### Synonyms

* (parere): parve

### Anagrams

* Serpa, Sprea, aspre, persa, presa, raspe, saper, serpa, spare, spera

## Latin
### Participle

parse
* vocative masculine singular of parsus