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Analyze
//ˈæn.ə.laɪz// verb
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Verb
- 1 To subject to analysis. US, transitive
"This section addresses the recent homeless backlash by reviewing and analyzing antihomeless legislation[…]"
- 2 subject to psychoanalytic treatment wordnet
- 3 To resolve (anything complex) into its elements. US, transitive
"analyze a problem"
- 4 make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features wordnet
- 5 To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately. US, transitive
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- 6 consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning wordnet
- 7 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. US, transitive
- 8 break down into components or essential features wordnet
Etymology
Probably a back-formation from analysis, or from Middle French analyser, from 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”).
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