analyze - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

Analyze means to study or examine something carefully in a methodical way. If you analyze your child's report card, you may determine his strength and weaknesses (and how many times he cut class).

This verb analyze comes from the noun analysis. The noun analysis was in turn borrowed from Greek, from analyein, or "to dissolve." If you go into analysis, it means that you will be examined and helped by a mental health professional — who will analyze your particular problems and help you find solutions.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: analyze

1	v	break down into components or essential features
2	v	subject to psychoanalytic treatment

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: analyze

1

v break down into components or essential features

“analyze today's financial market”

Synonyms:: analyse

Types:: factor analyse, factor analyze
to perform a factor analysis of correlational data

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”

Synonyms:: analyse, canvas, canvass, examine, study

Types:: show 29 types...; hide 29 types...; anatomize
analyze down to the smallest detail; diagnose, name
determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis; diagnose
subject to a medical analysis; appraise, survey
consider in a comprehensive way; survey
make a survey of; for statistical purposes; compare
examine and note the similarities or differences of; check, check into, check out, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out
examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition; assay
analyze (chemical substances); reexamine, review
look at again; examine again; audit, inspect, scrutinise, scrutinize
examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification; screen
examine methodically; follow, trace
follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; investigate, look into
investigate scientifically; sieve, sift
check and sort carefully; consider, look at, view
look at carefully; study mentally; explore
examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes; explore
examine minutely; explore, research, search
inquire into; explore
travel to or penetrate into; analogise, analogize
make an analogy; collate
compare critically; of texts; bioassay
subject to a bio-assay; examine, probe
question or examine thoroughly and closely; research
attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner; contemplate
look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought; groak
look or stare at longingly; canvas, canvass, poll
get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions; follow, keep an eye on, observe, watch, watch over
follow with the eyes or the mind; experiment
to conduct a test or investigation

v 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”

Synonyms:: analyse, break down, dissect, take apart

Antonyms:: synthesise, synthesize
combine so as to form a more complex, product

Types:: parse
analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence); botanise, botanize
collect and study plants

2

v subject to psychoanalytic treatment

“I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist”

Synonyms:: analyse, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze

Type of:: care for, treat
provide treatment for