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Grammar : Verb
Spell : pahrs, pahrz
Phonetic Transcription : pɑrs, pɑrz



Definition of parsing

Origin :
  • 1550s, "to state the parts of speech in a sentence," verb use of Middle English pars (n.) "part of speech" (c.1300), from Old French pars, plural of part "part," from Latin pars (see part (n.)) in school question, Quae pars orationis? "What part of speech?" Transferred (non-grammatical) use is from 1788. Pars was a common plural of part (n.) in early Middle English. Related: Parsed; parsing.
  • As in construe : verb deduce; explain
  • As in examine : verb analyze, test
  • As in analyze : verb break down to components
Example sentences :
  • "You can say we might all have done the parsing if we'd begun it first," said Beatrice.
  • Extract from : « The Nicest Girl in the School » by Angela Brazil
  • In parsing, I find that beauty is not always the desirable object!
  • Extract from : « The Woodcraft Girls at Camp » by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
  • I am going over my French parsing to myself, and you do interrupt me so.
  • Extract from : « Light O' The Morning » by L. T. Meade
  • Think of our parsing Milton as an aid to mastering the English language!
  • Extract from : « Our Friend John Burroughs » by Clara Barrus
  • Claire increasingly showed the strain, the unhappiness, through which she was parsing.
  • Extract from : « Cytherea » by Joseph Hergesheimer
  • Are you sure you've not forgotten that lesson in the parsing, child?'
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 » by Various
  • Parsing, and History, and several blanks for special studies not enumerated.
  • Extract from : « In the School-Room » by John S. Hart
  • You may now commit the order of parsing a participle, and then proceed with me.
  • Extract from : « English Grammar in Familiar Lectures » by Samuel Kirkham
  • There is, however, no trouble in "parsing" them, unless the list is forgotten.
  • Extract from : « Lectures on Language » by William S. Balch
  • The steam of the soup obscured the wall-maps, and the parsing exercise on the blackboard.
  • Extract from : « Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland » by Daniel Turner Holmes

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