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Analyze   /ˈænəlˌaɪz/   Listen
Analyze

verb
(past & past part. analyzed; pres. part. analyzing)
1.
Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning.  Synonyms: analyse, canvas, canvass, examine, study.  "Analyze the evidence in a criminal trial" , "Analyze your real motives"
2.
Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features.  Synonyms: analyse, break down, dissect, take apart.  "Analyze a sentence" , "Analyze a chemical compound"
3.
Break down into components or essential features.  Synonym: analyse.
4.
Subject to psychoanalytic treatment.  Synonyms: analyse, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze.



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"Analyze" Quotes from Famous Books



... by grief; and the consolation she found in her daughter's presence was as great as it was unexpected. Nathalie's tenderness and gentleness were certainly traits of the Dravikines, rather than of the Blashkov family. But Caroline, absorbed in memories of her beloved sister, failed either to analyze these, or to pay much heed to the two or three brief scenes between her girl and Ivan, which should have been summarily checked in their infancy. As it was, Mademoiselle Nathalie gained some relief from gloom and loneliness in the open admiration of her cousin; and, after ...
— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter

... I've tried to be ready; but I'm not. I can't say no, and I can't say yes. I wouldn't try to explain to any one else, but I think you'll understand. Forgive me if I analyze you a little, and ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge

... envied and disliked. It was as if she had been elected to their ranks, been made one of them; she wasn't on the outside of things any more; somebody—a very desirable and handsome somebody—admired her, too. She didn't analyze her feelings. Youth never thinks or analyzes, it feels and realizes; that is why it is divine, why it is lord of the earth. Her growing liking for him was so shy, so naive, so touchingly sincere, that Glenn was profoundly moved when he became aware of it. He had ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler

... stopped at once. Human society itself could not be maintained for even so much as the lifetime of one single generation. These facts, mostly neglected by sociologists and yet of the first importance for the life and further elevation of mankind, we are now going to analyze, beginning with the standing institutions of mutual support, and passing next to those acts of mutual aid which have their origin in personal ...
— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin

... absorb a dead man's ideas, but actually copy his style, hoping his interment included his works as well as his mortal remains. Being violently self-conscious, I sought as I passed youth and its dangerous critical heats to analyze just why I preferred one man's music to another's. Why was I attracted to Brahms whilst Wagner left me cold? Why did Schumann not appeal to me as much as Mendelssohn? Why Mozart more than Beethoven? At last, one ...
— Old Fogy - His Musical Opinions and Grotesques • James Huneker


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