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parsing

v.
C1 Advanced US //ˈpɑɹsɪŋ// pars·ing

v. to break a sentence or a piece of data into its separate parts to understand its meaning. You do this when you read or when a computer processes information.

v. to analyze the grammatical structure of a sentence or the structure of a data string to determine its meaning. In linguistics, it involves identifying the syntactic constituents and their hierarchical relationships.


SIMPLE

The computer is parsing the data to find errors.

CONTEXTUAL

When you read a complex sentence, your brain automatically parses it into smaller parts to understand the message.

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