ontleden — meaning in English

English meaning

• dissect verb To cut open a body, plant, or organism to examine its internal structure.
• parse verb 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.

Senses

ontleden is used for these senses in English:

• parse (linguistics, ambitransitive) 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. [from mid 16th c.]
• parse (computing, ambitransitive) To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.

dissect — full definition

1. verb To cut open a body, plant, or organism to examine its internal structure.
2. verb To examine something in minute detail, piece by piece.

parse — full definition

1. verb 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.
2. verb To examine closely; to scrutinize.
3. verb To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
4. verb To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.

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