Definition of parses:
(v) :
(computing, ambitransitive) To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
(v) :
(computing, transitive) To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.
(v) :
(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.
(v) :
(transitive) To examine closely; to scrutinize.
(v) :
(computing, linguistics, intransitive) Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid.
(n) :
(computing, linguistics) An act of parsing; a parsing.