Analyze
['ænə,laɪz]
Definition
(verb.) subject to psychoanalytic treatment; 'I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist'.
(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'.
(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'.
(verb.) break down into components or essential features; 'analyze today's financial market'.
Typed by Connie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
Inputed by Cleo
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Decompose, decompound, dissect, resolve.
Typed by Anton
Examples
- He would analyze his own machinations: elaborately contrive plots, and forthwith indulge in explanatory boasts of their skill. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Your deity is the deity of foreign aristocracies; analyze the blue blood of Spain! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She could not analyze her feelings, nor did she wish to attempt it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- This is a very natural supposition for men to make; so things seem to be until we analyze them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But to-day nearly all students of politics analyze institutions and avoid the analysis of man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We analyze to see just what lies between so as to bind together cause and effect, activity and consequence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- When listening to it for the first time the conflict of emotions which it excites is difficult to analyze. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But learning from language will be found, when analyzed, to confirm the principle just laid down. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He visited the mines and analyzed the gas. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A Harden hand-grenade was opened, and the solution contained qualitatively analyzed. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He advanced; he opened the door; my back was towards it; I felt a little thrill--a curious sensation, too quick and transient to be analyzed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For reasons worth analyzing later, these representative American citizens desired both the immediate taboo and an ultimate annihilation of vice. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is interesting to notice how in the very act of analyzing it I have fallen into this curious and ancient habit. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Miranda