What does analyze mean?
Definitions for analyze
ˈæn lˌaɪzan·a·lyze
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
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"
analyze, analyseverb
break down into components or essential features
"analyze today's financial market"
analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyseverb
subject to psychoanalytic treatment
"I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"
Wiktionary
analyzeverb
To subject to analysis.
analyzeverb
To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.
analyzeverb
To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
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.
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
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.
Webster Dictionary
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
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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The numerical value of analyze in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
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The numerical value of analyze in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of analyze in a Sentence
What United States did here that was unique, was take the data from the two cohorts and analyze it and publish them together and actually show that there was some consistency of the associations and that actually makes it powerful, we see the same association in two arguably very different places.
We make maps that used to take three years in a week, rather than preparing data to analyze we can spend time probing the data for answers. We're getting to answers much more quickly.
You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.
Honduran Foreign Minister Lisandro Rosales:
Officially, we have not received any proposal from the United States about (becoming a) safe third country, if we receive it, we will look into it, analyze it and make decisions.
The main purpose of this system is to analyze very interesting dynamic movements or dynamics things such as a sports players' motion, using our system we can compare those movements so we can see how to teach the right motion to people.
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Translations for analyze
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- تحليل, حللArabic
- анализирамBulgarian
- বিশ্লেষণ করাBengali
- analitzarCatalan, Valencian
- analyzovatCzech
- analysierenGerman
- αναλύωGreek
- analizarSpanish
- eritellä, analysoidaFinnish
- analyserFrench
- anailísighIrish
- bun-ronsagheyManx
- elemez, analizálHungarian
- greinaIcelandic
- 分析, 分析しますJapanese
- resolvereLatin
- analyserenDutch
- analizowaćPolish
- analisarPortuguese
- analizaRomanian
- анализироватьRussian
- analyseraSwedish
- విశ్లేషించుTelugu
- 分析Chinese
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