Etymology Possibly from Middle English pars (“parts, shares; parts of speech, grammar”), from Old French pars (plural of part (“part, portion, share”)), from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; to sell”).
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Human sciences, Linguistics, SciencesAmbitransitive To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically.
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To examine closely; to scrutinize.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, SciencesAmbitransitive To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.
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Computing, Engineering, Human sciences, Linguistics, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid.
Etymology Possibly from Middle English pars (“parts, shares; parts of speech, grammar”), from Old French pars (plural of part (“part, portion, share”)), from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; to sell”).