Definitions for Analyze
ˈæn lˌaɪzan·a·lyze

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.5 / 15 votes

1. analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvasverb

   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. analyze, analyse, break down, dissect, take apartverb

   make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features

   "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"

3. analyze, analyseverb

   break down into components or essential features

   "analyze today's financial market"

4. analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyseverb

   subject to psychoanalytic treatment

   "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 7 votes

1. analyzeverb

   To subject to analysis.

2. analyzeverb

   To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.

3. analyzeverb

   To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.

4. analyzeverb

   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, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

5. Etymology: Back formation from analysis, from analyser, from analyse, from Medieval Latin analysis, from ἀνάλυσις, from ἀναλύω, from ἀνά + λύσις, from λύω.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To ANALYZEverb

   To resolve a compound into its first principles. See Analysis.

   Etymology: ἀναλὺω.

   Chymistry enabling us to depurate bodies, and, in some measure, to analyze them, and take asunder their heterogeneous parts, in many chymical experiments, we may, better than in others, know what manner of bodies we employ; art having made them more simple or uncompounded, than nature alone is wont to present them us. Boyle.

   To analyze the immorality of any action into its last principles; if it be inquired, why such an action is to be avoided, the immediate answer is, because it is sin. John Norris, Miscell.

   When the sentence is distinguished into subject and predicate, proposition, argument, act, object, cause, effect, adjunct, opposite, &c. then it is analyzed analogically and metaphysically. This last is what is chiefly meant in the theological schools, when they speak of analyzing a text of scripture. Isaac Watts, Logick.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. analyze

   To analyze means to examine something in a detailed and systematic manner in order to understand its nature, function, or characteristics. This often involves breaking down complex information into simpler parts for better understanding or for drawing conclusions. Analyzing may also include the process of interpreting, evaluating, or making inferences from the data.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Analyzeverb

   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

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. analyze

   To review in detail.

   They chose to analyze the business plan in detail.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 15, 2020  

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1. Analyze

   Analyze vs. Analyse -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Analyze and Analyse.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Analyze in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Analyze in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Analyze in a Sentence

1. David Karpf:

   There's two levels to analyze this on, the first is, Peter Thiel now has a lot more time to spend Peter Thiel money on electing Republicans in the fall ; what's that going to mean for election outcomes ? The other is, Peter Thiel, prominent Donald Trump backer, has decided that Peter Thiel priority, instead of being a board member at Meta, is keeping the GOP in the clutches of Donald Trump.

2. Dejan Stojanovic:

   It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

3. Med Jones:

   You cut the jacket to fit the person, you do not cut the person to fit the jacket. Do not imitate the strategies of your competitors or blindly implement industry best practices. The Leader of an organization must analyze the situation and customize the business plans to fit the organization's position.

4. Signs:

   Merrill Morgan, this crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again.

5. David Jordan:

   In the politics of the present, where we are into politics of name calling and insult... I think it's probably unwise for The BBC to get ourselves into a position where we're calling out people for being liars or being racist, what is really important is that we look at the things that people say, that we analyze them, that we describe them objectively and as analytically as we can and we call them out for what they are at the time.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Analyze
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Analyze
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Analyze
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Analyze