'analyze' definitions:
Definition of 'analyze'
From: WordNet
verb
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" [syn: analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas]
verb
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" [syn: analyze, analyse, break down, dissect, take apart] [ant: synthesise, synthesize]
verb
Break down into components or essential features; "analyze today's financial market" [syn: analyze, analyse]
verb
Subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist" [syn: analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse]
Synonyms of 'analyze'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- air,
- alphabetize,
- anatomize,
- apply reason,
- arrange,
- assay,
- assort,
- atomize,
- bracket,
- break down,
- break up,
- canvass,
- catalog,
- categorize,
- change,
- chop logic,
- class,
- classify,
- codify,
- comment upon,
- conjugate,
- consider,
- contradistinguish,
- controvert,
- deal with,
- debate,
- decline,
- decompose,
- deduce,
- deliberate,
- deliberate upon,
- demarcate,
- demark,
- desynonymize,
- difference,
- differentiate,
- digest,
- discourse about,
- discriminate,
- discuss,
- disequalize,
- disjoin,
- dissect,
- distinguish,
- diversify,
- divide,
- draw the line,
- examine,
- exchange views,
- file,
- generalize,
- go into,
- grade,
- group,
- handle,
- hyphenate,
- hypothesize,
- index,
- individualize,
- individuate,
- infer,
- inflect,
- inspect,
- intellectualize,
- investigate,
- knock around,
- list,
- logicalize,
- logicize,
- make a distinction,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- mark the interface,
- modify,
- order,
- parenthesize,
- parse,
- part,
- particularize,
- pass under review,
- personalize,
- philosophize,
- pick out,
- pigeonhole,
- place,
- point,
- provide a rationale,
- punctuate,
- range,
- rank,
- rap,
- rate,
- rationalize,
- reason,
- reason about,
- reason the point,
- reduce,
- reduce to elements,
- refine a distinction,
- resolve,
- review,
- screen,
- screen out,
- scrutinize,
- segment,
- segregate,
- select,
- separate,
- set a limit,
- set apart,
- set off,
- sever,
- severalize,
- sieve,
- sieve out,
- sift,
- sift out,
- sort,
- sort out,
- specialize,
- split hairs,
- study,
- subdivide,
- subtilize,
- syllogize,
- synthesize,
- tabulate,
- take up,
- talk,
- talk about,
- talk of,
- talk over,
- theorize,
- thresh out,
- treat,
- type,
- use reason,
- vary,
- ventilate,
- winnow