analyze
1. consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning (Freq. 21)
- analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare
- analyze the evidence in a criminal trial
- analyze your real motives
• Syn:
analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas
• Derivationally related forms:
examination (for: examine), study (for: study), analyser (for: analyse), analyst, analysis
• Hyponyms:
anatomize, diagnose, name, survey, appraise,
compare, check, check up on, look into, check out, suss out,
check over, go over, check into, assay, review, reexamine,
audit, scrutinize, scrutinise, inspect, screen, trace,
trace, investigate, sieve, sift, view,
consider, look at
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Sam and Sue analyze the movie
2. make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of;
break down into components or essential features (Freq. 2)
- analyze a specimen
- analyze a sentence
- analyze a chemical compound
• Syn:
analyse, break down, dissect, take apart
• Ant:
synthesize
• Derivationally related forms:
dissection (for: dissect), breakdown (for: break down), analyser (for: analyse), analyst, analyzer
• Hyponyms:
parse, botanize, botanise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. break down into components or essential features
- analyze today's financial market
• Syn:
analyse
• Derivationally related forms:
analyst, analysis, analyzer
• Hyponyms:
factor analyse, factor analyze
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. subject to psychoanalytic treatment
- I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist
• Syn:
analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse
• Derivationally related forms:
psychoanalyst (for: psychoanalyze), analyst, analysis
• Topics:
psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine
• Hypernyms:
treat, care for
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
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