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zerteilen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fritter noun A piece of food, often fruit or vegetable, coated in batter and deep-fried.
  • 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.
  • slit noun A long, narrow cut or opening.

Senses

zerteilen is used for these senses in English:

  • fritter (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
  • fritter (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
  • parse (computing, ambitransitive) To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
  • slit To split into strips by lengthwise cuts.

fritter — full definition

  1. noun A piece of food, often fruit or vegetable, coated in batter and deep-fried.
  2. verb To waste time, money, or effort gradually on unimportant things.

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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