The Collaborative International Dictionary
Analyze \An"a*lyze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Analyzed; p. pr. & vb. n. Analyzing.] [Cf. F. analyser. See Analysis.]
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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.
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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.
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subject to psychoanalytic treatment. I was analysed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist
Syn: analyze, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of analyze English)
Usage examples of "analyzing".
But, for all her analyzing, logic meant nothing whenever she remembered the feeling that had burned through her.
But comfort eluded her and despair welled in her heart, because analyzing her emotions didn't change them.
She could sense him analyzing every nuance of her expressions, and the knowledge was unsettling.
She was no good at analyzing a man-woman relationship, because she'd never had one.
He had made his millions sifting through stock information, but he sure as hell didn't want to spend the rest of his life staring at a computer screen analyzing profit margins and product demand.
He settled back, his lids lowering over his eyes as he studied her, analyzing her as intently as if she were the prime suspect in a murder.
He was a damn good cop, combining experience, intuition, and a talent for analyzing cold hard facts without letting his emotions cloud the issue.
Giordano had drawn for analyzing, but DNA wasn’t used for identification the same way that fingerÂprints were.
Why didn't anyone think to show me a frame of the animals whose flesh I've been analyzing so often?
We've got surface deposit / erosion scans going, another seven hours on that, and there's a new technique for analyzing biochemical residues, but basically we've got Cruss and Co.
They spend too much time analyzing children and not enough time actually seeing them or paying attention to them.
Years of analyzing every little nuance of those dreadful weeks had made her decide that what had happened to her could just as easily happen to some other unwitting archeologist.
Their semanticist is analyzing the frequency and consistency of patterns, and the rhythm at which they flow, which varies.
Beauty flitted to her shoulder, wrapping her tail lightly around Menolly's neck as she peered toward Piemur, cocking her head this way and that as if analyzing the sound and Menolly's command.
Now I want to thank you, F'lessan and Tai, for the work you've already completed, analyzing the images I sent.