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Term: Parses

Part of Speech: Verb

Definition:

1. To analyze or break down a sentence or text into its component parts, such as words, phrases, and syntactic structures, to determine their grammatical roles.

2. In computer programming, to analyze and understand the syntax and structure of a piece of code.

Sense 1: Analyzing a sentence or text

Example sentence 1: The linguist carefully parses each sentence to identify the subject and predicate.

Example sentence 2: The software automatically parses the input text and highlights the different sentence components.

Sense 2: Analyzing code in computer programming

Example sentence 1: The compiler parses the source code to detect any syntax errors.

Example sentence 2: The programming language provides built-in functions to parse JSON data efficiently.

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