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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
analyze
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
analyze data
▪ The researchers then began analyzing the data.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
data
▪ Marketing teams analyze this data to produce profiles of those who give and they use these profiles to better target fundraising drives.
▪ International research tends to involve analyzing international data, rather than acquiring first-hand knowledge about international operations in other countries.
▪ Budget analysts spend the majority of their time working independently, compiling and analyzing data and preparing budget proposals.
▪ With the advent of the microcomputer, managers now can input and analyze their own data.
▪ New York City health officials were able analyze very recent data because the city collects birth and death records for its residents.
▪ Related Occupations Accountants and auditors design internal control systems and analyze financial data.
▪ Clinical trials not only collect and analyze medical data, they also gather information on the costs of alternative treatments.
time
▪ While government statisticians will return to work this week, they will still need time to collect and analyze information.
▪ Nathan Keyfitz, a professor emeritus of sociology and population at Harvard University, has spent considerable time analyzing the debate.
■ VERB
try
▪ She is only trying to analyze a whole condensed program of things that are not correct.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Experts are still analyzing the DNA evidence in the case.
▪ In a 1985 report, we analyzed the production costs of six different weapons systems.
▪ One of the problems in analyzing the situation is that we do not have all the information yet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But - whatever the situation - innovators must analyze all opportunity sources.
▪ But now, with more-affordable computer equipment and software available, any would-be market maven can analyze a universe of stocks.
▪ It was restricted to gathering and analyzing intelligence.
▪ Man is not made into a machine by analyzing his behavior in mechanical terms.
▪ One of the problems in analyzing the situation is that we do not yet know the entire picture in detail.
▪ Politicians analyze their support in class terms, and sociologists would be lost without it.
▪ So after psychiatric sessions, Angela came to Uncle Sammler to hold a seminar and analyze the pro ceding hour.
▪ This is the bible that many investors use to analyze companies.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Analyze

Analyze \An"a*lyze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Analyzed; p. pr. & vb. n. Analyzing.] [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.
    --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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
analyze

c.1600, "to dissect," from French analyser, from analyse (see analysis). Literature sense is attested from 1610s; meaning in chemistry dates from 1660s. General sense of "to examine closely" dates from 1809; psychological sense is from 1909. Related: Analyzed; analyzing.

Wiktionary
analyze

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To subject to analysis. 2 (context transitive English) To resolve (anything complex) into its elements. 3 (context transitive English) To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately. 4 (context transitive English) 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.

WordNet
analyze
  1. v. 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" [syn: analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas]

  2. 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" [syn: analyse, break down, dissect, take apart] [ant: synthesize]

  3. break down into components or essential features; "analyze today's financial market" [syn: analyse]

  4. subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist" [syn: analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse]

Wikipedia
Analyze (imaging software)

Analyze is a software package developed by the Biomedical Imaging Resource (BIR) at Mayo Clinic for multi-dimensional display, processing, and measurement of multi-modality biomedical images. It is a commercial program and is used for medical tomographic scans from magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography and positron emission tomography.

The Analyze 7.5 file format has been widely used in the functional neuroimaging field, and other programs such as SPM, FreeSurfer, AIR, MRIcro and Mango are able to read and write the format. The files can be used to store voxel-based volumes. One data item consists of two files: One file with the actual data in a binary format with the filename extension .img and another file (header with filename extension .hdr) with information about the data such as voxel size and number of voxels in each dimension. SPM has defined changes to this format, among other things the voxel ordering within the file.

Usage examples of "analyze".

French kings throughout the Renaissance were so convinced that anagrams held magic power that they appointed royal anagrammatists to help them make better decisions by analyzing words in important documents.

For more than three decades, scientific, military, and health experts have tried to analyze the consequences of a large-scale anthrax attack.

The full version of an antiviral program scans, analyzes, identifies, tracks, localizes, destroys, repairs, and reports.

After the unusual chemistry was documented and all the data collected that I analyzed, the science team studying Sirius B swept the area with fully ionizing Xenon-Chloride excimer lasers and vaporized all the debrisincluding the wispsto clear the path for their probes.

Stages The Extractor, in position at destination, analyzes, selects and draws substance from proximate asteroids, comets, satellites, planetoids, swarms, star surface and other accessible bodies and strata, reduces the substance to spunnel-teleportable constituents, loads the mass into the spunnel facility and dispatches the product.

The manjack is a semi-autonomous machine gun assembly that analyzes its arc of fire and engages anything entering it.

Mia, Kenin, Lolimel, and the three other medicians sat in a circle twenty yards away, staring at handhelds and analyzing results.

If you can master the coordinates, I can make the metrology stuff analyze anything we want.

The AI had analyzed the morphemes it identified in their speech, and assigned probable meaning to the combinations.

We have carefully analyzed reports about several other Chinese sites, and we find that the same process of morphological dating has been used to temporally separate various kinds of hominids.

I felt nothing, only an overbearing sorrow and bewilderment I could not analyze or explain to myself.

A whole passel of archaeologists have been brought on board to analyze every foot of the digging.

Ashamed of my perpetually agile brain, and its egotistic pleasure in analyzing who was persuading whom, which way political power was flowing, who was up and who was on his way down.

When the coupling constant of one member of a dual pair of theories is small, we can analyze its physical properties using well-developed perturbative tools.

I think Egyptian picture-writing came easy because I have analyzed so many hundreds of photoplay films, merely for recreation, and the same style of composition is in both.