to parse
- verb
- /pɑrs/
- Specialized
- She used the new program to parse the text and extract relevant information.
- difficult to parse
- parse data
So perhaps you can help me parse that a bit more, right.
- So perhaps you can help me parse that a bit more, right.
- You need algorithms to parse the information in some way.
- About everything and it's hard to parse out like what is true and what isn't.
- That's what the second is what I call the skill of parsing out the truth.
- And he just sat down and he just very patiently parsed the evidence.
- Well, again, we'd have to sort of parse this out.
- Or, you know, how do you parse these various traditions in terms of efficacy?
- And most people don't know how to parse data.
- And then he considers several different ways to parse this out.
- And it's it's hard for anybody to parse.
- First we have healthcare opinion, a minute later, parsing it ASAP.
- And it's a little bit hard to parse that and segment that.
- Just parse those two out and then parse out just if somebody died, did they die?
Examples
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The software can parse the data quickly and accurately for analysis.
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You need algorithms to parse the information in some way.
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I think art and science are both ways in which we parse the world.
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A serious war powers report would help us parse out the cost before the bill comes due.
Academic text (1991) -
You just need to be able to parse out the bad stuff.
Blog text (4) -
I'm just trying to parse it out for you.
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How, in this epoch, do we parse the political?
Academic text (2010) -
So we have to parse what Milton Friedman says.
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Other actors will assess the statements and actions of rising powers carefully to parse out their intentions.
Academic text (2011) -
You have to parse the data in a text editor... and then script it into a searchable database.
Synonyms
To study something carefully to understand it better
To study something closely by breaking it into parts, for example a text or idea
How Thorough
- US
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word parse comes from the Latin pars meaning 'part', the same root as the familiar word part. That's why to parse data or text is to break it into parts so you can understand or process each piece.