Parse: to analyze

I subscribe to the Dictionary.com Word of the Day RSS Feed. I did this so that I could challenge my vocabulary and learn something new each day. It's a fun feed and I recommend it to all librarians and budding philologists [:)]. On sunday it sent me the word "parse". I had to smile with pride. This is one technogeekery word that has quickly become a part of my vocabulary. While parse means "to analyze", I always think of this in a computer context. In my favourite dictionary the OED they include this as part of their definition: "In extended use in computational linguistics, to analyse (a string) into syntactic components to test its conformability to a given grammar. " For example, when you have a database (like a library catalogue) filled with data and a patron searches the database the data is then parsed and the database sends out results. In another example, the XML script used in RSS feeds parses the items into a machine readable code which is then parsed by an RSS aggregator for you to read. While these are not textbook examples and definately will not make it into the OED, it's how I think of the word. Why not add parse to your vocabulary?