Dictionary entry details
• ANALYZE (verb)
Meaning:
Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
analyse; analyze; examine; study; canvass; canvas
Context examples:
analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare / analyze the evidence in a criminal trial / analyze your real motives
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "analyze"):
consider; look at; view (look at carefully; study mentally)
sieve; sift (check and sort carefully)
investigate; look into (investigate scientifically)
follow; trace (follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something)
screen (examine methodically)
audit; inspect; scrutinise; scrutinize (examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification)
reexamine; review (look at again; examine again)
assay (analyze (chemical substances))
check; check into; check out; check over; check up on; go over; look into; suss out (examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition)
compare (examine and note the similarities or differences of)
survey (make a survey of; for statistical purposes)
appraise; survey (consider in a comprehensive way)
diagnose (subject to a medical analysis)
diagnose; name (determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis)
anatomize (analyze down to the smallest detail)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue analyze the movie
Meaning:
Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
break down; analyze; dissect; take apart; analyse
Context examples:
analyze a specimen / analyze a sentence / analyze a chemical compound
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "analyze"):
parse (analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence))
botanise; botanize (collect and study plants)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
synthesize (combine so as to form a more complex, product)
Meaning:
Break down into components or essential features
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
analyse; analyze
Context example:
analyze today's financial market
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "analyze"):
factor analyse; factor analyze (to perform a factor analysis of correlational data)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Subject to psychoanalytic treatment
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
psychoanalyse; psychoanalyze; analyse; analyze
Context example:
I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist
Hypernyms (to "analyze" is one way to...):
care for; treat (provide treatment for)
Domain category:
psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
