2. analyze to examine critically, so as to bring out the essentialelements or give the essence of: to analyze a poem.
3. analyze to examine carefully and in detail so as to identify causes, key factors, possible results, etc.: to analyze a situation.
4. analyze to subject to mathematical, chemical, grammatical, etc., analysis.
Etymology: (1595–1605; prob. back formation from analysis , with
Definition of 'analyze'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (verb)analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"
2. (verb)analyze, analyse, break down, dissect, take apart make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; breakdown into components or essential features "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"
3. (verb)analyze, analyse breakdown into components or essential features "analyze today's financial market"
4. (verb)analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse subject to psychoanalytic treatment "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"
Definition of 'analyze'
Webster Dictionary
1. (verb)analyze to subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality
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