Definitions for analyze
ˈæn lˌaɪzan·a·lyze

Princeton's WordNet(4.46 / 15 votes)Rate this definition:

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(3.00 / 7 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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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How to say analyze in sign language?

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. Joan Laporta:

   There comes a moment when you need to say ‘enough’. You need to analyze rigorously with a cold head and look at the numbers, and in the Spanish league we have to abide by the rules. We think they could be more flexible, but that’s not an excuse, we knew the regulation. We couldn't abide by it because of the inheritance we had.

2. Mardjono Siswosuwarno:

   We are feeling relieved but there is still a lot of work ahead of us to analyze it.

3. Robert Rintoul:

   If you have a lung cancer inside your lung, that cancer is producing a range of chemicals in very, very minute amounts. And this device can collect those samples, those tiny amounts of volatile organic compounds, which we can then analyze in the laboratory. And in effect, it's a bit like a fingerprint. If you have a lung cancer we believe that we can detect these samples and that fingerprint will tell us whether the person has lung cancer or not.

4. Zen diab:

   A champion is strong, not just by showing it physically -but mentally, cause to achieve and become at the level he is, he needs a brain to analyze it, right?

5. Ram Madhav:

   The Bihar election was a very important battle for us. We will have to analyze each and every aspect of the result, there are lessons to be learned.

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