parsing
Americannoun
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the act or process of analyzing sentences or their elements grammatically.
Many sites offer additional help for those studying classical Greek texts, such as quick parsing and translation.
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the act or process of analyzing language, behavior, events, etc., closely or minutely to discover their implications or deeper meaning.
At first I interpreted the case the same way, but on second thought, and after careful parsing of the press releases, it's not as clear-cut.
There will always be opportunities to entertain disquisitions on the subject, more detailed parsing of the circumstances, and so on.
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Computers. the process of analyzing character strings in order to associate them with syntactic units of the underlying grammar.
If the file path contains spaces, use double quotes to ensure correct parsing.
Etymology
Origin of parsing
Example Sentences
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Others have tracked attendance at political gatherings, parsing changes in seating arrangements or unexplained absences that can signal a disturbance in an official’s career trajectory.
After parsing struggling sites, Red Lobster could start growing again, including in upstate New York and New England where the brand runs few locations, Adamolekun said.
We thought we owed him the opportunity after our criticism of his tariffs, and we’ll pay him the additional compliment of parsing his claims.
Even the mystery she’s trying to unravel depends on correctly parsing the meaning of syntax and conjugation.
From Salon
On a recent Thursday morning, five researchers and engineers at Ricursive scrunched before giant computer screens in a nondescript Palo Alto house, dissecting research papers and parsing through lines of code.
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