reparse

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

English parse

English reparse

From re- + parse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈpɑː(ɹ)s/

Verb

reparse (third-person singular simple present reparses, present participle reparsing, simple past and past participle reparsed)

1. (transitive) To parse again.

Noun

reparse (plural reparses)

1. The act of parsing again.
   • 1981, Ralph E. Gorin, Introduction to DECSYSTEM-20: Assembly Language Programming:

     Due to the possibility that a reparse may be necessary, it is crucial that the parsing of a command should avoid any irrevocable alteration in the state of the data structures until the command is confirmed.

   • 2012, David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk, Machine Learning of Natural Language, page 236:

     In the case of less vicious examples, the alternate parse may be readily available as a parallel hypothesis, but in the vicious example cited above, a reparse is started with a different set of expectations for the syntactic role of what is being parsed.

Derived terms

• reparse point

Anagrams

• Pereras, reapers, rerapes, spearer