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Definition: Analyze |
AnalyzeVerb1. 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". 2. 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". 3. Break down into components or essential features; "analyze today's financial market". 4. Subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "analyze" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1748. (references) |
Note: Analyze \An"a*lyze\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Analyzed; present participle verb or noun Analyzing.]. (references) |
Synonyms: AnalyzeSynonyms: analyse (v), break down (v), canvass (v), dissect (v), examine (v), psychoanalyse (v), psychoanalyze (v), study (v), take apart (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: synthesize (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Decomposition | Verb: decompose, decompound; analyze, disembody, dissolve; resolve into its elements, separate into its elements; electrolyze; dissect, decentralize, break up; disperse; unravel; (unroll); crumble into dust. |
Inquiry | Examine, study, consider, calculate; dip into, dive into, delve into, go deep into; make sure of, probe, sound, fathom; probe to the bottom, probe to the quick; scrutinize, analyze, anatomize, dissect, parse, resolve, sift, winnow; view in all its phases, try in all its phases; thresh out. |
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Screenplays | Good night and sweet dreams which we'll analyze in the morning (Spellbound; writing credit: Ben Hecht) We need to analyze that burger to find out if it used to be people (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) In some things, the more I analyze them the less clear they become (Ed's Next Move; writing credit: John Walsh) Fry, why must you analyze everything with your relentless logic (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) Don't analyze me. (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne) | |
Lyrics | I analyze every second I exist (Take A Look Around; performing artist: Limp Bizkit) Nas analyze are you trustworthy by the looks on your eyes (Love Is All We Need; performing artist: Mary J. Blige) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Reel Comedy: Analyze That (2002) | |
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 | Peering halfway across the universe to analyze light from exploded stars that died long before ... Credit: NASA. |  | NSSL used this equipment to detect, analyze, and map lightning strikes. Lightning studies were conducted during the late 1970s and 1980s. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |
 | Figure 62. Knudsen apparatus for the measurement of oxygen and nitrogen in sea water. This was a "multiple use" device that simultaneously was able to analyze sea water for the presence and amount of a number of gases. It was developed by the Dane Martin Knudsen and used by Ingolf in 1895 and 1896. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 57. Dittmar device for extracting gases from sea water. This device was described by the British professor William Dittmar of Anderson's College in Glasgow. He used it to analyze sea water sampled during the CHALLENGER expedition. It complemented the use of the Jacobsen apparatus used by John Y. Buchanan during the CHALLENGER expedition. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | District Conservationist Ed Romero (left) and Northwest Field Team Leader Norman Vigil (right) analyze rotational grazing techniques on small farms in Espanola, New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | Veterinary pathologist Norman Cheville (left), molecular biologist Shirley Halling, and National Animal Disease Center director Harley Moon analyze DNA sequence reactions of a vaccine made from a modified Brucella abortus bacterium. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |
 | Biochemist Kevin Young (left) and David Ertl, a plant breeder with Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., analyze hybrid corn samples. High inorganic phosphorus in low-phytic-acid kernels turns the test solution dark blue, while normal kernels show light. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |  | Courier GulchX-ray fluorescence spectrometer being used to analyze how many heavy metals from mining dump are presentShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Tim Fuller. |
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Charles Kingsley | Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. |
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Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly |
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Health | When IPF is suspected, the doctor will analyze the patient's blood. (references) | |
Down syndrome researchers have developed a mouse model to analyze the developmental consequences of Down syndrome. (references) | ||
Lab technicians analyze a sample of stool to check for bacteria, parasites, or other signs of disease or infection. (references) | ||
Business | It is not yet possible to analyze the profitability made by the foreign firms. (references) | |
First, a foreign company could open a representation office to analyze the market and look for customers. (references) | ||
For example, tests to analyze cardiac enzyme levels allow early diagnosis of heart attacks, thereby reducing hospitalization stays. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | France | Although the Government instructed the MILS to analyze "the phenomenon of cults," its decree did not define the term cult or distinguish cults from religions. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | Although emirate immigration authorities routinely ask foreigners to declare their religious affiliation, the Government does not collect or analyze this information, and religious affiliation is not a factor in the issuance or renewal of visas or residence permits. (references) | |
Economic History | Mexico | American firms are also encouraged to carefully analyze with their representative the tender specifications. (references) |
Human Rights | Djibouti | In November 2000, the Government sponsored a series of judicial assessment workshops to analyze the judicial system and to propose recommendations for strengthening the judiciary. (references) |
Guatemala | On July 3, the Interior Minister established a Consultative Commission on the National Penitentiary System to analyze the existing system and come up with recommendations for systematic improvements. (references) | |
Peru | After a 90-day internal organization period, the Commission began its work on November 13. The Commission plans to present its final report on February 13, 2003. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has a mandate to analyze the political, social, and cultural conditions that fostered an era of violence between May 1980 and November 2000, during which more than 25,000 persons were killed and an estimated 6,200 persons disappeared. (references) | |
Trade | Germany | The effect of EU harmonization on the "GS" and "VDE" mark is difficult to analyze. (references) |
India | Allowing temporary imports for test marketing at substantially lower tariff rates will allow these companies to analyze the market and then make informed investment decisions. (references) | |
Ukraine | The National Joint Implementation (JI) Strategy Study will provide Ukrainian authorities with tools and develop options for their use to analyze the opportunities presented by potential international markets for GHG emission reductions through the mechanism of JI. The Study will pursue this objective from Ukraine's perspective and analyze the general elements that impact any future market for GHG emission reductions; second, it will help Ukraine to identify priorities within climate change theme. (references) | |
Women | Guinea | In May 2000, the Government instituted a working plan to analyze the situation of women and children in the country. (references) |
Worker Rights | Argentina | In late 2000, the Labor Minister formed a tripartite commission to analyze the ILO observations, but there have been no reported developments. (references) |
Finland | The Government has a leading role in promoting the EU's antitrafficking "STOP" project, which is an effort to create a multinational network to monitor, analyze, and combat trafficking in persons. (references) | |
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Joe Viterelli | Well, the most funniest thing about doing the Analyze movies is that you never know what Billy Crystal is going to say. |
Karl Lagerfeld | Whatever it is, it's up to me to make believe there is one. There was one, but this is something I'm not supposed to analyze, something I'm supposed to do. It's very different. I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct. |
Richard Gephardt | I think it's a good start. I don't know where we'll wind up with all this. We've got really hear his recommendations, and then try to analyze it to the best of our ability. |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We created the Regulatory Analysis Review Group in the White House to analyze the most costly proposed new rules and find ways to improve them. |
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| "Analyze" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 76.27% of the time. "Analyze" is used about 118 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 76.27% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 23.73% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Total | 100.00% | 118 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "analyze"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | analizoj (analyse, assay, break down, dissect, sift, survey, take stock, test), zbërthej (analyse, break down, crack, decompose, demount, diffract, disarticulate, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dismount, disperse, dissolve, Plumb, pull apart, puzzle out, resolve, take to pieces, unbuckle, unbutton, undo, unfasten, unlock, unnail), shqyrtoj (analyse, assay, bolt, call, canvass, case, check, check over, debate, discuss, explore, inspect, investigate, look into, look over, look through, moot, peruse, process, scrutinize, see, see into, study, talk over, think out, traverse, vet, view). (various references) | |
Arabic | حلل نفسيا (analyse, psychoanalyze), حلل (analyse, anatomize, construe, dissect, resolve, take apart, take to pieces, test), إختصر (abbreviate, abridge, analyse, boil down, clip, curtail, cut short, limit, nick, outline, reduce, shorten, syncopate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разчленявам (analyse, disjoint, joint), разглеждам (analyse, bolt, canvass, consider, do, eye, handle, hear, look through, oversee, regard, scan, see, see into, see over, take up, treat, view), разлагам (analyse, break down, contaminate, decompose, degrade, disintegrate, dissolve, molder, putrefy, resolve, scan), анализирам (analyse, break down, criticize, decompose, dissect, process, resolve), правя разбор (analyse), правя анализ (analyse, assay, sample). (various references) | |
Chinese | 分析 (Analysis). (various references) | |
Czech | rozebírat (construe). (various references) | |
Dutch | analyseren (analyse), ontleden (analyse), ontbinden (analyse, annul, remit). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرگشاءی کردن , پاره پاره کردن (Scalpel, Tatter), موشکافی کردن (Scrutinize), تحلیل کردن , تجزیه کردن (Abstract, Breakdown, Comminute, Decompose, Dismember, Liberate), تشریح کردن (Dissect), جزءیات رامطالعه کردن , جداکردن (Abrupt, Abstract, Amputate, Calve, Chop, Cleave, Cutoff, Detach, Disconnect, Dissociate, Disunite, Divide, Drawoff, Insulate, Intercept, Part, Partition, Rive, Rupture, Select, Separate, Sequester, Sever, Try, Uncouple, Unlink, Untwist, Unzip), باتجزیه ازمایش کردن . (various references) | |
French | analyser (analyse). (various references) | |
German | analysieren (analyse, parse). (various references) | |
Greek | αναλύω (analyse). (various references) | |
Hungarian | analizál (analyse, to analyse, to analyze), elemez (analyse, to analyze, to anatomize, to construe, to dissect). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menelaah (study carefully), menceraikan (divorce, parse, separate, separate from). (various references) | |
Italian | analizzare (analyse). (various references) | |
Korean | 분석하십시요 (Analyse, parse). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | analyzeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | analise (analyse), analisar sintaticamente (analyse), analisar (analyse), examinar com minúcia (analyse). (various references) | |
Romanian | analiza (analyse, anatomize, assay, canvass, consider, decompose, dissect, examine, parse, review, test), prelucra (adapt, analyse, change, discuss, elaborate, enlighten, machine, operate, pick smb.'s brain, process, recast, remake, study, transform, work, work over), face analiza sintacticã (analyse), descompune (analyse, crumble, decompose, disintegrate, dissolve, resolve, rot), cerceta (examine, explore, investigate). (various references) | |
Russian | разобрать (analyse, disassemble, dismantle, dismount, make out, sort out, study out, take to pieces, unmake), разбирать (demount), анализировать анализ, анализировать (analyse). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | analizirati (anatomize, break down), raščlaniti (divide, parse). (various references) | |
Spanish | analizar (analyse). (various references) | |
Swedish | analysera (analyse). (various references) | |
Turkish | araştırmak (analyse, cast about, cast around, check up, dig, dig up, drag up, dredge for, dredge up, explore, ferret, ferret about, fish, fish around, forage, fossick, go into, hunt after, hunt out, hunt up, inquire, inquire into, investigate, make a study of, poke, probe, quarry, quest, rake, research, research into, root, rout, rummage, search, seek, seek after, seek for, shop, shop for, sound, study, sum up, survey), analiz etmek (analyse), tahlil etmek (analyse, resolve), incelemek (analyse, audit, check over, con, construe, dig, dig out, dissect, examine, examine into, go into, investigate, look into, look through, make a study of, observe, peruse, research, research into, scan, search, study, survey, twig, vet, view), çözümlemek (analyse, clear up, construe, resolve, solve, sort, sort out). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розкладати (analyse, contaminate, dissipate, dissolve, resolve, set out, spread), розбирати (analyse, decipher, decompose, demount, disassemble, disjoint, dismantle, dissect, overhaul, spell), аналізувати (analyse, anatomize, canvass, decompose), досліджувати (analyse, examine, explore, investigate, look into, prospect, research, search), докладно розбирати (analyse). (various references) | |
Welsh | elfennu, dosrannu (separate), dadelfennu, dadansoddi. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "analyze": analyzed, analyzer, analyzers, analyzes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "analyze": overanalyze, psychoanalyze, reanalyze. (additional references) | |
Words containing "analyze": overanalyzed, overanalyzes, psychoanalyzed, psychoanalyzes, reanalyzed, reanalyzes, unanalyzed. (additional references) | |
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"Analyze" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alanyze, amalyse, anagly, analis, analise, analize, analy, analyize, analys, analysi, analyte, analyzw, anaylse, anilize, anilyze, annalyze, annelise, banalize, Fantayzee, panalyze. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "analyze" (pronounced a"nulī'z) |
| 5 | -n u l ī' z | criminalize, deinstitutionalize, denationalize, depersonalize, fictionalize, finalize, internalize, internationalize, marginalize, nationalize, penalize, personalize, professionalize, rationalize, regionalize, renationalize. |
| 4 | -u l ī' z | actualize, alkalies, annualize, brutalize, cannibalize, capitalize, caramelize, catalyze, centralize, civilize, collateralize, commercialize, compartmentalize, crystallize, decentralize, demobilize, demoralize, departmentalize, destabilize, editorialize, equalize, evangelize, federalize, fertilize, formalize, fossilize, generalize, globalize, hospitalize, hydrolyze, idolize, industrialize, legalize, liberalize, localize, materialize, memorialize, metabolize, mineralize, mobilize, monopolize, moralize, naturalize, neutralize, normalize, paralyze, radicalize, recapitalize, revitalize, scandalize, serialize, socialize, specialize, stabilize, sterilize, symbolize, tantalize, tranquilize, trivialize, underutilize, utilize, vandalize, verbalize, visualize. |
| 3 | -l ī' z | butterflies, creolize, fireflies, gadflies, idealize, multiplies, realize, stylize. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-n-y-z" | |
-2 letters: alane, nyala. | |
-3 letters: alae, alan, anal, azan, elan, lane, laze, lazy, lean, yean, zany, zeal. | |
-4 letters: aal, ala, ale, ana, ane, any, aye, lay, lea, ley, lez, lye, nae, nay, yea, yen. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, al, an, ay, el, en, la, na, ne, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-n-y-z" | |
+1 letter: analyzed, analyzer, analyzes. | |
+2 letters: analyzers, reanalyze. | |
+3 letters: analyzable, reanalyzed, reanalyzes, unanalyzed. | |
+4 letters: hydralazine, overanalyze, reanalyzing. | |
+5 letters: hydralazines, overanalyzed, overanalyzes, unanalyzable. | |
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