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Lexed vs Lered - What's the difference?

lexed | lered |

As verbs the difference between lexed and lered

is that lexed is (lex) while lered is (lere).

lexed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lex)

    • 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

    * ----

    lered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lere)

    • lere

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . See also (l), (l), (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (ler)
  • To teach; instruct; explain; inform.
  • To guide; lead.
  • To learn; study.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) learning; lesson; lore
    • (Spenser)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch (m), German (m).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) empty

    • Anagrams

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