Oct 25, 2010 12:59
parse \PAHRS\, transitive verb:
1. To resolve (as a sentence) into its component parts of speech with an explanation of the form, function, and syntactical relationship of each part.
2. To describe grammatically by stating its part of speech, form, and syntactical relationships in a sentence.
3. To examine closely or analyze critically, especially by breaking up into components.
4. To make sense of; to comprehend.
5. (Computer Science) To analyze or separate (input, for example) into more easily processed components.
I have love affairs with words. I fell in love with parse during an episode of Wonderfalls (curse you Fox for cancelling it so fast!) where Jaye's dad tells her not to parse the blurb in her mom's new book after Jaye decided that the number of words used to describe each of the children was proportional to how proud her mom was of them. I love that the word is so small but it takes a whole lot of words to describe what it means. Yup, I think I might go back to dating parse again. :-)
writer's block,
things that piss me off,
word of the day