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analyze
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verb (v)

  • consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning(verb.cognition)
    Example:
    Analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare.
    Analyze the evidence in a criminal trial.
    Analyze your real motives.
    source: wordnet30
  • make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features(verb.cognition)
    Example:
    Analyze a specimen.
    Analyze a sentence.
    Analyze a chemical compound.
    source: wordnet30
  • break down into components or essential features(verb.cognition)
    Example:
    Analyze today's financial market.
    Synonym:
    analyse
    source: wordnet30
  • subject to psychoanalytic treatment(verb.cognition)
    Example:
    I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist.
    source: wordnet30
  • 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.(verb)
    source: webster1913
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