analyze

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to subject to psychoanalytic treatment

   I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist.

2. 2
   verb

   to make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of

   They analyzed the text for errors.

3. 3
   verb

   to consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

   You should analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare.

4. 4
   verb

   to break down into components or essential features

   I analyze today's financial market for the local paper.

5. 5
   verb

   To subject to analysis.

   This section addresses the recent homeless backlash by reviewing and analyzing antihomeless legislation[…]

6. 6
   verb

   To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.

   analyze a problem

7. 7
   verb

   To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.

8. 8
   verb

   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, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

Etymology

Probably formed within English, by back-formation, or by haplology from analysis + -ize, or from Middle French analyser, from the noun analyse, from Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis, “a breaking up, a loosening, releasing”), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “to unloose, release, set free”), from ἀνά (aná, “on, up, above, throughout”) + λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”), from λύω (lúō, “to unfasten”).