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