partner

n 1: a person's partner in marriage [syn: {spouse}, {married

person}, {mate}, {consort}]

2: an associate who works with others toward a common goal

[syn: {collaborator}, {cooperator}, {pardner}]

v 1: provide with a partner

2: act as a partner; "Astaire partnered Rogers"

parser

An {algorithm} or program to determine the

syntactic structure of a sentence or string of symbols in some

language. A parser normally takes as input a sequence of

{tokens} output by a {lexical analyser}. It may produce some

kind of {abstract syntax tree} as output. One of the best

known {parser generators} is {yacc}.

(1997-07-21)