analyze

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

Pronunciation

ăn′ə-līz /ˈæn.ə.laɪz/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-analyze.wav /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ [ˈɛən.əˌlaɪz] [ˈæ(ː)nəˌlaɪz] [ˈɑnələi̯z] [ˈanələi̯z] /ˈæn.ə.lɑez/ /ˈæn.lɑez/ /ˈɛn.ə.laɪz/ [ˈɛn.ə.lɑe̯z] ən-ə-līz′ /ənəˈlajz/

Word forms

analyze analyzes analyzing analyzed analyse

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”).

Related words

Derived words

analyzability analysability analyzable analysable analyzation analyzer analyser bioanalyze coanalyze cryptanalyze microanalyze misanalyze overanalyze preanalyze psychoanalyze psychoanalyse reanalyze subanalyze

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