reparse

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/ɹiːˈpɑː(ɹ)s/

verb

To parse again.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person reparses · participle present reparsing · participle past reparsed · past reparsed

  1. transitiveTo parse again.
nounreparse (plural reparses)

plural reparses

  1. The act of parsing again.

    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.

    1981, Ralph E. Gorin, Introduction to DECSYSTEM-20: Assembly Language Programming
    1 more example

    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.

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

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishparse
  7. Englishreparse

From re- + parse.

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