analyze : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: analyze	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for analyze
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
analyze 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" Synonym(s): analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas 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" Synonym(s): analyze, analyse, break down, dissect, take apart Antonym(s): synthesise, synthesize break down into components or essential features; "analyze today's financial market" Synonym(s): analyze, analyse subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist" Synonym(s): analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Analyze \An"alyze\, 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.