analyze
UK /ˈæn.ə.laɪz/ · US /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ verb
Forms analyzes analyzing analyzed analyse
- verb (transitive) To subject to analysis.
- verb (transitive) To resolve (anything complex) into its elements. “analyze a problem”
- verb (transitive) To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
- verb (transitive) 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, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.
Synonyms
analyse study examine canvass canvas break down dissect take apart psychoanalyze psychoanalyse
Antonyms
Etymology
Probably formed within English, by back-formation, or by haplology from analysis + -ize, or from Middle French analyser, from the noun analyse, from Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis, “a breaking up, a loosening, releasing”), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “to unloose, release, set free”), from ἀνά (aná, “on, up, above, throughout”) + λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”), from λύω (lúō, “to unfasten”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb 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.
Etymology [Cf. F. analyser. See Analysis.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “analyze”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details