English to English
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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- break down into components or essential features
Analyze today's financial market.
source: WordNet 3.0
- subject to psychoanalytic treatment
I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
