Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or practice of describing grammatically the words in a sentence.
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- verb Present participle of
parse . - noun A
parse operation.
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Examples
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April 2nd, 2010 at 11: 52 am tombaker says: so far Tentherloo/HCR, with all its droll Constitutional hairsplitting and poll-parsing, is by far the most tedious and boring of all the - loos.
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Brennan said that advocates of originalism underestimated the difficulty in parsing the founders 'intentions, given the sparse records of the ratification debates and ambiguous evidence of their intentions.
Excerpts from 'Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion' by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel 2010
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His blog has become a kind of independent clearing house for information on the Norsigian drama, and he has been taking a lead in parsing out the truth about the glass plates, "snapping and snarling," as he puts it, over all the claims and counter-claims that have contributed to the "deepening mystery" (as per Britain's Mail Online) surrounding them.
David Schonauer: The Lost Ansel Adams Negatives: 10 Essential Plot Points David Schonauer 2010
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That was not a thin parsing but an accurate reading.
Blast From the Past 2010
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His blog has become a kind of independent clearing house for information on the Norsigian drama, and he has been taking a lead in parsing out the truth about the glass plates, "snapping and snarling," as he puts it, over all the claims and counter-claims that have contributed to the "deepening mystery" (as per Britain's Mail Online) surrounding them.
David Schonauer: The Lost Ansel Adams Negatives: 10 Essential Plot Points David Schonauer 2010
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Using this empirical setting, they also begin parsing the mechanisms that might explain the negative association between resource wealth and political and economic development.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Using this empirical setting, they also begin parsing the mechanisms that might explain the negative association between resource wealth and political and economic development.
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And I also love the word parsing and opinion shaping going on here.
Breaking: GOP Senate Leader McConnell Says Craig Won't Resign If Cleared 2009
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Or better still (from a word parsing standpoint), they've got native Alaskans doing the research ... they didn't have to travel to Alaska because they were already there!
DNC's Chief Researcher: We Sent "Zero" Oppo-Guys To Alaska 2009
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In the AJAX biosphere all parsing is handled by Javascript (okay, ECMAScript, but who really calls it that?) and parsing through a ton of XML cruft in order to get to data when all you need is a single integer or string or array wastes time and adds needless complexity.
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