- to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- to describe (a word in a sentence) grammatically, identifying the part of speech, inflectional form, syntactic function, etc.
- to analyze (something, as a speech or behavior) to discover its implications or uncover a deeper meaning: Political columnists were in their glory, parsing the president's speech on the economy in minute detail.
- to analyze (a string of characters) in order to associate groups of characters with the syntactic units of the underlying grammar.
- to be able to be parsed; lend itself to parsing: Sorry, but your concluding paragraph simply doesn't parse.
- to assign constituent structure to (a sentence or the words in a sentence)
- (of a word or linguistic element) to play a specified role in the structure of a sentence
- to analyse the source code of a computer program to make sure that it is structurally correct before it is compiled and turned into machine code
