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Definition: Dissect |
DissectVerb1. Cut open or cut apart; "dissect the bodies for analysis". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dissect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
Note: Dissect \Dis*sect"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Dissected; present participle verb or noun Dissecting.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DissectSynonyms: analyse (v), analyze (v), break down (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. |
Disjunction | Cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate; skin; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband; disperse; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute; (pulverize); apportion. |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dissect |
| English words defined with "dissect": anatomise, anatomize ♦ Dissecting. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dissect": section ♦ Vivisect. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This morning I caught her trying to dissect her own raincoat. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) They will dissect you! (Beneath the Planet of the Apes; writing credit: Paul Dehn; Mort Abrahams) | |
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| "Dissect" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 74.47% of the time. "Dissect" is used about 47 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) | 74.47% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 23.4% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dissect | 18 |
dissect frog | 18 |
dissect student | 5 |
dissect frog online | 3 |
dissect meaning meow multiple psychologist | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dissect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shqyrtoj me imtësi, pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), hap (anatomize, cave, detect, dig, disclose, display, distribute, drive, expand, footstep, inaugurate, move, open, open up, pace, peg, pitch, remove, roll out, spread, start, step, stretch, strew, turn down, turn on, unblock, unbolt, unbosom, uncap, unclasp, unclench, unclose, uncork, uncover, undo, undraw, unfurl, unhook, unlatch, unlock, unreel, unseal, unshutter, unwrap, walk), copëtoj (break, break in pieces, chop, crack up, cut to pieces, cut up, disintegrate, dismember, fissure, fragment, joint, mangle, maul, rend, rip up, sever, sunder), bëj autopsi (anatomize, post mortem), analizoj (analyse, analyze, assay, break down, sift, survey, take stock, test), çaj (break, char, cleave, cut, fissure, forge, impale, open, pink, puncture, push through, slash, slit, split, tea, tear, worm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فحص بدقة (canvass, rummage), حلل (analyse, analyze, anatomize, construe, resolve, take apart, take to pieces, test), شرح (account for, anatomize, be explained, caption, commentary, cut into slices, demonstrate, demonstration, elucidate, elucidation, explain, explanation, explication, exposition, expound, puzzle out, represent, slice, sort out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разсичам (chop, cleave, hack, slash, slit), разрязвам (cut in, cut up, disarticulate, scissor, slit), анализирам (analyse, analyze, break down, criticize, decompose, process, resolve), дисектирам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 解剖 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozpitvat, preparovat, pitvat (anatomize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dissekere (anatomise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sectie verrichten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sekci. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | skera sundur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | موشکافی کردن(مج), کالبدشکافی کردن , تشریح کردن (Analyze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | leikellä (clip, cut, cut up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sectionner. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sezieren, zerlegen (analyse, analyze, break down, carve, carve up, cut up, decompose, depacketize, dismantle, disperse, divide, joint, quarter, quartering, reduce, separate, share, strip down, take apart, take down, take to pieces, to analyse, to carve, to decompose, to depacketize, to disassemble, to disjoint, to dismember, to disperse), zergliedern (analyse, analyze, anatomize, dismember, parse, to anatomize, to dismember). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανατέμνω (anatomize), διαμελίζω (chop, dismember, partition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לבתור (bisect, cut in two, halve), לבתר (carve, dismember, slice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felboncol (anatomize, to anatomize, to dissect), elemez (analyse, analyze, assay, construe, parse, to analyse, to analyze, to anatomize, to assay, to construe, to dissect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | memotong (butcher, deduct, dock, hamstring, intersect, lop, prune), membedah (cut open, operate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dissezionare, dissecare (anatomise), sezionare, anatomizzare (anatomize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | rheynn veih my cheilley, mynscrutaghey (analyse, analysis, dissection, narrow examination, perusal, peruse, scan, scansion, screen, scrutinize), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | issectday dissecar (anatomize, dissected), desagradar (disobligingly, offend). (various references) diseca (anatomize), tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), face o disecţie, analiza (analyse, analyze, anatomize, assay, canvass, consider, decompose, examine, parse, review, test). (various references) вскрывать (rip up), анатомировать (anatomize). (various references) secirati (anatomize). (various references) disecar (anatomise). (various references) dissekera (anatomize), skära sönder (cut to pieces, cut up, shred), analysera (analyse, analyze, assay, construe). (various references) parçalayıp incelemek, kesip parçalara ayırmak, kadavrayı incelemek, incelemek (analyse, analyze, audit, check over, con, construe, dig, dig out, 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). (various references) розтинати (open, rip up, shear through), розбирати (analyse, analyze, decipher, decompose, demount, disassemble, disjoint, dismantle, overhaul, spell), препарувати. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | perseco. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dissect": dissected, dissecting, dissection, dissections, dissector, dissectors, dissects. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dissect": microdissection, microdissections. (additional references) | |
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"Dissect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Danseco, dececco, diesect, disait, disassoc, discect, discett, disect, diseet, Disick, dispect, dissact, disse, dissectum, disses, dosset, Dossick, Lissett. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dissect" (pronounced dīse"kt) |
| 4 | -s e" k t | intersect, sect. |
| 3 | -e" k t | affect, bedecked, checked, collect, confect, connect, correct, decked, deflect, deject, detect, direct, disaffect, disconnect, disinfect, disrespect, effect, eject, elect, erect, expect, incorrect, indirect, infect, inflect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, misdirect, necked, neglect, overprotect, perfect, protect, rechecked, recollect, reconnect, redirect, reelect, reflect, reinspect, reject, respect, resurrect, select, subject, suspect, trekked, unchecked, wecht, wrecked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: deists, desist, edicts. | |
-2 letters: cedis, cesti, cists, cited, cites, deist, dices, diets, discs, dites, edict, edits, sects, sices, sides, sited, sites, stied, sties, tides. | |
-3 letters: cedi, cess, cist, cite, dice, dies, diet, disc, diss, dite, dits, edit, etic, iced, ices, ides, secs, sect, seis, sets, sice, sics, side, site, sits, teds, tics, tide. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: cestoids, discepts, disjects, dissects. | |
+2 letters: chastised, consisted, custodies, diestocks, dissected, dissector, distances, domestics, ecdysiast, stickseed, tickseeds. | |
+3 letters: associated, cadetships, carditises, coassisted, courtsides, crassitude, customised, cystitides, desiccants, desiccates, desistance, directness, directress, disaffects, discredits, disinfects, dislocates, dispatches, disrespect, dissecting, dissection, dissectors, dissociate, dyspeptics, ecdysiasts, misdirects, ostracised, pesticides, recordists, seductions, sidetracks, stickseeds, stickweeds, stridences, syndicates, tracksides. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 73 65 63 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... ... . -.-. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s s e c t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0073 0065 0063 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38758585716986 |
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