Dissect
[daɪ'sekt;dɪ-] or [dɪˈsɛkt,daɪ-,ˈdaɪˌsɛkt]
Definition
(verb.) cut open or cut apart; 'dissect the bodies for analysis'.
Editor: Lora--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.
(v. t.) To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Anatomize, cut in pieces.[2]. Analyze, scrutinize, sift, examine, investigate, explore, lay open.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Take_to_pieces, anatomize, scrutinize, investigate
ANT:Grasp, comprehend, slur, skim, unite, integrate, organize, compound, collocate,conjoin, confound
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Definition
v.t. to cut asunder: to cut into parts for the purpose of minute examination: to divide and examine: to analyse and criticise (often hostilely as a man's character or motives).—adj. Dissect′ible.—ns. Dissect′ing; Dissec′tion the act or the art of cutting in pieces a plant or animal in order to ascertain the structure of its parts: anatomy.—adj. Dissect′ive tending to dissect.—n. Dissect′or.—Dissected map picture a map or picture on a board cut into pieces so that the putting of them together forms a puzzle.
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Examples
- Few of us can safely enquire into the things which nature hides, any more than we can dissect our own bodies. Plato. The Republic.
- O, worn and beating heart, may I dissect thy fibres, and tell how in each unmitigable misery, sadness dire, repinings, and despair, existed? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Lubbock made drawings for me, with the camera lucida, of the jaws which I dissected from the workers of the several sizes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Rather than pass upon an uncertainty, the experiment will be dissected and checked minutely in order to obtain absolute knowledge, pro and con. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She made few distinctions; she allowed scarcely any one to be good; she dissected impartially almost all her acquaintance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He dissected specimens of fifty different species of an imals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Nothing like dissecting, to give one an appetite,' said Mr. Bob Sawyer, looking round the table. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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