| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | an·a·lyze |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n  -l z |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es
1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. Mathematics To make a mathematical analysis of. 4. To psychoanalyze. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Perhaps from French analyser, from analyse, analysis, from Greek analusis. See analysis. | | OTHER FORMS: | ana·lyza·ble —ADJECTIVE
ana·ly·zation (-l -z shn) —NOUN
ana·lyzer —NOUN
| | SYNONYMS: | analyze, anatomize, dissect These verbs mean to separate into constituent parts for study: analyze a chemical substance; a book that anatomizes 19th-century European history; medical students dissecting cadavers.
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