Definitions for analyze
ˈæn lˌaɪzan·a·lyze

Princeton's WordNet(4.27 / 11 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.

2. analyze(Verb)

   To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.

3. analyze(Verb)

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

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.

Origin: 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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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. Dejan Stojanovic:

   It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

2. Aurora Berill:

   If it hurts, analyze it and work your way through it.

3. Chief Tom Jackson:

   I need to have time to really analyze this report so I can comment on it.

4. Charles Kingsley:

   Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

5. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce:

   All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

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