Synonyms

parse

American

[pahrs, pahrz] / pɑrs, pɑrz /

verb (used with object)

parsed, parsing

to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
to describe (a word in a sentence) grammatically, identifying the part of speech, inflectional form, syntactic function, etc.
to analyze (something, as a speech or behavior) to discover its implications or uncover a deeper meaning.

Political columnists were in their glory, parsing the president's speech on the economy in minute detail.
Computers. to analyze (a string of characters) in order to associate groups of characters with the syntactic units of the underlying grammar.

verb (used without object)

parsed, parsing

to be able to be parsed; lend itself to parsing.

Sorry, but your concluding paragraph simply doesn't parse.

parse British

/ pɑːz /

verb

to assign constituent structure to (a sentence or the words in a sentence)
(intr) (of a word or linguistic element) to play a specified role in the structure of a sentence
computing to analyse the source code of a computer program to make sure that it is structurally correct before it is compiled and turned into machine code

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Other Word Forms

misparse verb (used with object)
parsable adjective
parser noun
parsing noun
unparsed adjective

Etymology

Origin of parse

First recorded in 1545–55; from Latin pars “part,” as in pars ōrātiōnis “part of speech”

Example Sentences

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Those odds fluctuated as markets parsed mixed messages from Fed officials and limited economic data, thanks to the now-ended government shutdown.

From Barron's

The near-term outlook also remained a bit difficult to parse due to the contributions of the company’s new acquisitions, Paradox and Sana.

From Barron's

Those odds fluctuated as markets parsed mixed messages from Fed officials and limited economic data, thanks to the now-ended government shutdown.

From Barron's

For months, the market was too busy pricing AI stocks and parsing Elon Musk’s latest proclamation to notice Japan’s bond yields climbing.

From MarketWatch

Still, Berkshire’s disclosures are widely parsed by market participants seeking insight into the decisions made by the company’s investing deputies.

From The Wall Street Journal

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