Parse
verb
To divide something into parts so that it can be understood easier.
She parsed the text to understand its meaning better.
Often appears as...
- parse a sentence
- parse a phrase
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Academic
verb
In computing, to analyze a program or other input according to the rules of a formal grammar.
The computer program can parse the data into a readable format.
Often appears as...
- parse code
- parse data
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Technical
verb
To examine something in a very detailed, usually to understand it better.
He parsed the sales contract carefully before signing it.
Often appears as...
- parse a contract
- parse a report
verb
To divide something into parts so that it can be understood easier.
She parsed the text to understand its meaning better.
Often appears as...
- parse a sentence
- parse a phrase
Usage tips
Academic
verb
In computing, to analyze a program or other input according to the rules of a formal grammar.
The computer program can parse the data into a readable format.
Often appears as...
- parse code
- parse data
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To examine something in a very detailed, usually to understand it better.
He parsed the sales contract carefully before signing it.
Often appears as...
- parse a contract
- parse a report
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Understanding Complexity
Use 'parse' when breaking down complex texts into simpler components to grasp the concept.
To make this thesis understandable, we must parse the argument's key points.
Pro Tip 2/3Clarity in Analysis
'Parse' implies a level of deep analysis to clarify or explain something complicated.
I need to parse the poem to decipher its themes.
Pro Tip 3/3Educational Context
Often used in academic settings, 'parse' can relate to dissecting language or theories.
Parse each sentence to better understand the author's use of language.
Pro Tip 1/3Understanding Complexity
Use 'parse' when breaking down complex texts into simpler components to grasp the concept.
To make this thesis understandable, we must parse the argument's key points.
Pro Tip 2/3Clarity in Analysis
'Parse' implies a level of deep analysis to clarify or explain something complicated.
I need to parse the poem to decipher its themes.
Pro Tip 3/3Educational Context
Often used in academic settings, 'parse' can relate to dissecting language or theories.
Parse each sentence to better understand the author's use of language.
Pro Tip 1/3Understanding Complexity
Use 'parse' when breaking down complex texts into simpler components to grasp the concept.
To make this thesis understandable, we must parse the argument's key points.
Pro Tip 2/3Clarity in Analysis
'Parse' implies a level of deep analysis to clarify or explain something complicated.
I need to parse the poem to decipher its themes.
Pro Tip 3/3Educational Context
Often used in academic settings, 'parse' can relate to dissecting language or theories.
Parse each sentence to better understand the author's use of language.
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How computers translate...
and set of rules to recognize the basic linguistic elements in the input language. For a seemingly simple sentence like, "The children eat the muffins," the program first parses its syntax, or grammatical structure, by identifying the children as the subject, and the rest of the sentence as the predicate
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How to spot a liar -...
average married couple you're going to live your spouse in one out of every ten interactions now you may think that's bad if you're unmarried that number drops to three lying's complex it's woven into the fabric of our daily and our business lives we're deeply ambivalent about the truth we parse it
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How to spot a liar PIPE...
Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that number drops to three. Lying's complex. It's woven into the fabric of our daily and our business lives. We're deeply ambivalent about the truth. We parse it out on an as-needed basis, sometimes for very good reasons,
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What the world can learn...
there are a couple of caveats that are really important to make. The first one is that we're still parsing what happened in China. The information system, as everyone knows, is still relatively closed. And so a lot of the information that we're using
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Holly Morris: Why stay...
The benefits of hardy, physical living, but an environment made toxic by a complicated, little-understood enemy, radiation. It's incredibly difficult to parse. Health studies from the region are conflicting and fraught. The World Health Organization
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Does grammar matter? -...
not memorized rules. And because speech also uses mood and intonation for meaning, its structure is often more flexible, adapting to the needs of speakers and listeners. This could mean avoiding complex clauses that are hard to parse in real time,
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Olympic Training During...
there's still like a t-rex right there what's your read on the tokyo games do you think they can pull it off safely i think they can pull it off and the word safely there is that's the thing we gotta parse in the months leading up to the olympics
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The Turing test: Can a...
but forgot to check the date," requires a wealth of underlying knowledge and intuition to parse. It turns out that simulating a human conversation takes more than just increasing memory and processing power, and as we get closer to Turing's goal,
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A lesson in Bacteria PIPE...
don't even know how to culture all of these microbes in the lab and we don't know exactly what they do and so a technology that I would love right now is what some way to parse all of these microbes and functionally screen them to
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Pawan Sinha on how...
Two. What are these things? A square and a circle. And we see this pattern over and over again. The one thing the visual system needs in order to begin parsing the world
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How computers translate...
and set of rules to recognize the basic linguistic elements in the input language. For a seemingly simple sentence like, "The children eat the muffins," the program first parses its syntax, or grammatical structure, by identifying the children as the subject, and the rest of the sentence as the predicate
Video examples
How to spot a liar -...
average married couple you're going to live your spouse in one out of every ten interactions now you may think that's bad if you're unmarried that number drops to three lying's complex it's woven into the fabric of our daily and our business lives we're deeply ambivalent about the truth we parse it
Video examples
How to spot a liar PIPE...
Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that number drops to three. Lying's complex. It's woven into the fabric of our daily and our business lives. We're deeply ambivalent about the truth. We parse it out on an as-needed basis, sometimes for very good reasons,
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What the world can learn...
there are a couple of caveats that are really important to make. The first one is that we're still parsing what happened in China. The information system, as everyone knows, is still relatively closed. And so a lot of the information that we're using
Video examples
Holly Morris: Why stay...
The benefits of hardy, physical living, but an environment made toxic by a complicated, little-understood enemy, radiation. It's incredibly difficult to parse. Health studies from the region are conflicting and fraught. The World Health Organization
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Does grammar matter? -...
not memorized rules. And because speech also uses mood and intonation for meaning, its structure is often more flexible, adapting to the needs of speakers and listeners. This could mean avoiding complex clauses that are hard to parse in real time,
Video examples
Olympic Training During...
there's still like a t-rex right there what's your read on the tokyo games do you think they can pull it off safely i think they can pull it off and the word safely there is that's the thing we gotta parse in the months leading up to the olympics
Video examples
The Turing test: Can a...
but forgot to check the date," requires a wealth of underlying knowledge and intuition to parse. It turns out that simulating a human conversation takes more than just increasing memory and processing power, and as we get closer to Turing's goal,
Video examples
A lesson in Bacteria PIPE...
don't even know how to culture all of these microbes in the lab and we don't know exactly what they do and so a technology that I would love right now is what some way to parse all of these microbes and functionally screen them to
Video examples
Pawan Sinha on how...
Two. What are these things? A square and a circle. And we see this pattern over and over again. The one thing the visual system needs in order to begin parsing the world
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Tom Junod
American Journalist
Weddings have become an expression not just of our desires but also our ambitions, and so more and more the food at weddings is like the food everywhere else, with the ingredients parsed for purity and the preparation praised for ingenuity and the sushi chef standing where the carving table used to be.
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Ken Liu
American Writer
Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
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Gary Johnson
American Politician
Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.
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David Brin
American Author
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
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Tracy K. Smith
American Poet
I have kept journals at different times in my life. And a lot of my early notebooks became places where I would just think on the page, trying to parse what I was feeling, to find out what I was thinking.
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Marti Noxon
American Writer
When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that we stop trying to communicate with people we don't understand.
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Frank Rich
American Journalist
It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.
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Holly Hunter
American Actress
There are ways that women absorb situations, and I think women are different kinds of listeners. They're different in terms of how they parse out problem solving.
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John McAfee
American Businessman
My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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Tom Junod
American Journalist
Weddings have become an expression not just of our desires but also our ambitions, and so more and more the food at weddings is like the food everywhere else, with the ingredients parsed for purity and the preparation praised for ingenuity and the sushi chef standing where the carving table used to be.
Quote examples
Ken Liu
American Writer
Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
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Gary Johnson
American Politician
Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.
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David Brin
American Author
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
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Tracy K. Smith
American Poet
I have kept journals at different times in my life. And a lot of my early notebooks became places where I would just think on the page, trying to parse what I was feeling, to find out what I was thinking.
Quote examples
Marti Noxon
American Writer
When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that we stop trying to communicate with people we don't understand.
Quote examples
Frank Rich
American Journalist
It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.
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Holly Hunter
American Actress
There are ways that women absorb situations, and I think women are different kinds of listeners. They're different in terms of how they parse out problem solving.
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John McAfee
American Businessman
My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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