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lex | lesk |

As a proper noun lex

is a pet form of the male given name alexander.

As a noun lesk is

(dialectal) the loin, flank.

lex

English

Verb

  • (computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
  • * 1994 , Donna K Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2)
    • Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques.
  • * 2004 , Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis
    • SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.
  • * 2007 , Don Syme, Adam Granicz, Antonio Cisternino, Expert F#
    • Lexing and parsing do not have to be separated, and there are often convenient .NET methods for extracting information from text in particular formats...

    Derived terms

    * lexer

    See also

    * ----

    lesk

    English

    Alternative forms

    * lisk

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal) The loin, flank.
  • (dialectal) The groin.

    • Anagrams

    * *