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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PARSE, v.t. p`ars. [from L. pars, part.] In grammar, to resolve a sentence into its elements, or to show the several parts of speech composing a sentence, and their relation to each other by government or agreement.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (parsed; parsing) Etymology: Latin pars orationis part of speech Date: circa 1553 transitive verb 1. a. to resolve (as a sentence) into component parts of speech and describe them grammatically b. to describe grammatically by stating the part of speech and explaining the inflection and syntactical relationships 2. to examine in a minute way ; analyze critically <having trouble parsing…explanations for dwindling market shares — R. S. Anson> intransitive verb 1. to give a grammatical description of a word or a group of words 2. to admit of being parsed II. noun Date: 1963 a product or an instance of parsing

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 describe (a word in context) grammatically, stating its inflection, relation to the sentence, etc. 2 resolve (a sentence) into its component parts and describe them grammatically. Derivatives: parser n. esp. Computing Etymology: perh. f. ME pars parts of speech f. OF pars, pl. of part PART, infl. by L pars part

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Parse Parse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Parsing.] [L. pars a part; pars orationis a part of speech. See Part, n.] (Gram.) To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically. Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it over perfectly. --Ascham.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(parses, parsing, parsed) In grammar, if you parse a sentence, you examine each word and clause in order to work out what grammatical type each one is. (TECHNICAL) VERB: V n

Moby Thesaurus

analyze, block out, bracket, conjugate, decline, detail, enumerate, hyphenate, inflect, itemize, mark, number, outline, parenthesize, point, punctuate, resolve, scan, schematize