Definitions for analyze
ˈæn lˌaɪzan·a·lyze

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

1. analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas(verb)

   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 apart(verb)

   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, analyse(verb)

   break down into components or essential features

   "analyze today's financial market"

4. analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse(verb)

   subject to psychoanalytic treatment

   "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"

Wiktionary(2.67 / 6 votes)Rate this definition:

1. analyze(Verb)

   To subject to analysis.

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

2. analyze(Verb)

   To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.

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

3. analyze(Verb)

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

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

4. analyze(Verb)

   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.

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

1. Analyze(verb)

   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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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. Roy Hodgson:

   When we analyze this game tomorrow there will be a lot of things we will want to take forward, and hopefully we'll be able to put the memory of this last-minute goal behind us.

2. Jaclyn Smith:

   I think when women feel pretty, they exude a confidence and feel better about themselves, and I think my line, yes its classic, but we’re still very much on trend. We analyze trends every season and we encourage our customers to make it their own… And with that philosophy, your money goes further.

3. Roland Siegwart:

   Imagine that you have an aircraft which we recently had, which is lost, in the ocean, you can imagine these are small airplanes, you have probably a fleet of them, 50, 100, and you really cover big areas. So you just fly them out in the ocean and then they can take images and then you can analyze images and then probably find people and find lost airplanes and so on.

4. Julian Bailes:

   There's so many things about CTE we don't understand, there never has been long-term longitudinal studies that analyze who gets it and exactly why, what the prevalence of it is, and then who progresses. There may be a group that doesn't progress.

5. Andrew Smyth:

   We just wanted to look at a diverse cohort of people from all around the world and analyze what their risk for cognitive decline would be if they consumed what most organizations would consider a 'healthy diet'.

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