What does analyze mean?

Definitions for analyze
ˈæn lˌaɪzan·a·lyze

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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  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.

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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 Contribution

  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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Numerology

  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. Shannon Beckham:

    We reached out to Stan Garnett, who then met with Deborah Ramirez to work through how to analyze and present Deborah Ramirez allegations.

  2. Fox News:

    This is not something that Fox News made up, this is something that was coming from the President and his legal team… you really can’t analyze this case while pretending that this wasn’t going on.

  3. Deborah Birx:

    Hes been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data, i think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues.

  4. Noah Carr:

    Armorblox focuses on two things — find someone who may have stolen someone's credentials, maybe using your email to communicate internally and stop it before he's able to do something, it can analyze documents as well. So if there is sensitive information in a document sent in a PDF (portable document format) outside your organization, it can flag a bunch of that information, or stop it from happening. It actually stops that exfiltration of data.

  5. David Spergel:

    Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can, we will be identifying what data – from civilians, government, non-profits, companies – exists, what else we should try to collect, and how to best analyze it.

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