analyze v
1. 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]

Analyze \An"a*lyze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Analyzed; p. pr. & vb. n. Analyzing.] [Cf. F. analyser. See Analysis.] 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. No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of pleasure or pain. --Darwin.

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