analyze
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Verb (4)analyzed, analyzing
- 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”Synonyms: analysestudyexaminecanvassMore general see, considerMore specific compare, check, investigate, view, review, trace, survey, diagnose, screen, assay +3 more
- 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”Synonyms: analysebreak downdissecttake apartMore general act, moveMore specific botanize, parse
- break down into components or essential features“analyze today's financial market”Synonyms: analyseMore general see, considerMore specific factor analyse, factor analyze
- subject to psychoanalytic treatment“I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist”Synonyms: analysepsychoanalyzepsychoanalyseMore general treat, care for
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Translations
Verb to subject to analysis
- Spanish
- analizar
- French
- analyser
- German
- analysieren
- Italian
- analizzare
- Portuguese
- analisar
- Turkish
- incelemek
- Russian
- анализи́ровать analizírovatʹ
- Arabic
- حَلَّلَ ḥallala
- Chinese
- 分析 fēnxī
- Japanese
- 分析する bunseki suru
21 more languages
- Dutch
- analyseren
- Polish
- analizować
- Swedish
- analysera
- Greek
- αναλύω analýo
- Korean
- 분석하다 bunseokhada
- Indonesian
- menelaah
- Vietnamese
- phân tích
- Hungarian
- elemez
- Portuguese (PT)
- analisar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 分析 fēnxī
- Catalan
- analitzar
- Czech
- analyzovat
- Danish
- analysere
- Esperanto
- analizi
- Estonian
- analüüsima
- Finnish
- analysoida
- Icelandic
- greina
- Latvian
- analizēt
- Norwegian
- analysere
- Romanian
- analiza
- Slovak
- analyzovať
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Cf. F. analyser. See Analysis.
1. 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; to consider in detail in order to discover essential features or meaning; as, to analyze an action to ascertain its morality; to analyse a sonnet by Shakespeare; to analyse the evidence in a criminal trial; to analyse your real motives. Syn. — analyze, study, examine [ + ]
No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of pleasure or pain.— Charles Robert Darwin
2. make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; as, to analyse a specimen; to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyse a chemical compound. Syn. — analyze, break down, dissect, take apart.
3. subject to psychoanalytic treatment. I was analysed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist Syn. — analyze, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: WordNet 1.5