Word of the Day: PARSE

Interpret, audit, or explicate

parse (verb) - to carefully analyze, break down, or dissect a text or thought; to analyze a string of symbols or turn a form of data into a data structure [pahrs]

BREAKDOWN: PART- (part, piece) + -SE (action)

• parse as a noun is the analysis of a string of text or a sentence’s grammatical structure

“There’s no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.” —David Brin