<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li><p>(Used with object)</p><ul><li>To analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.</li><li>To describe (a word in a sentence) grammatically, identifying the part of speech, inflectional form, syntactic function, etc.</li><li>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.</li><li>(Computers) To analyze (a string of characters) in order to associate groups of characters with the syntactic units of the underlying grammar.</li></ul></li><li><p>(Used without object)</p><ul><li>To be able to be parsed; lend itself to parsing: Sorry, but your concluding paragraph simply doesn't parse.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>