analyze
VerbWordNet 3.0
Verb (4)
- 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: analysestudyexaminecanvasscanvas
- 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 apart
- break down into components or essential features“analyze today's financial market”Synonyms: analyse
- subject to psychoanalytic treatment“I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist”Synonyms: analysepsychoanalyzepsychoanalyse
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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 [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of pleasure or pain.— Darwin.[1913 Webster]
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. [WordNet 1.5]
3.subject to psychoanalytic treatment. I was analysed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist
Syn: analyze, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse. [WordNet 1.5]