ANALYSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does analyse mean? 

• ANALYSE (verb)
  The verb ANALYSE has 4 senses:

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

2. break down into components or essential features

3. make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features

4. subject to psychoanalytic treatment

  Familiarity information: ANALYSE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANALYSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they analyse    ... he / she / it analyses
Past simple: analysed   
Past participle: analysed   
-ing form: analysing   

Sense 1

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; canvass; examine; study

Context example:

analyze your real motives

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "analyse"):

assay (analyze (chemical substances))

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)

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 analyse the movie

Derivation:

analyser (an instrument that performs analyses)

Sense 2

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 "analyse"):

factor analyse; factor analyze (to perform a factor analysis of correlational data)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

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:

analyse; analyze; break down; dissect; take apart

Context example:

analyze a chemical compound

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "analyse"):

botanise; botanize (collect and study plants)

parse (analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

analyser (an instrument that performs analyses)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Subject to psychoanalytic treatment

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

analyse; analyze; psychoanalyse; psychoanalyze

Context example:

I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist

Hypernyms (to "analyse" 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

 Context examples 

Dr Martin Worthington’s new research analysing the word play in the story has uncovered the duplicitous language of a Babylonian god called Ea, who was motivated by self-interest.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

A sub-field of genetics that uses both genetic and immunological analyses to study the genetics behind antibody formation and the immune response.

(Immunogenetics, NCI Thesaurus)

To analyse the entire genome (total genetic complement) of an individual, organism, cell or tissue.

(Genome Scan, NCI Thesaurus)

Other specific baby products were also analysed, such as personal care products, certain fabrics, nappy-changing mats, and mattress protectors.

(Babies in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to harmful chemical substances found in plastic, University of Granada)

The investigator collects and analyses data and study documents, and provides reports in compliance with applicable requirements.

(Investigator, NCI Thesaurus)

A facility responsible for various analyses on tissue samples.

(Laboratory or Pathology Department, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers, led by Professor Rui-Min Chen, analysed various measurements of the children's weight and metabolic health.

(Supplements of 'Good Bacteria' Can Enhance Weight Loss in Dieters, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Prospective, randomized, controlled trials and meta-analyses of prospective, randomized, controlled trials.

(Level of Evidence I, NCI Dictionary)

The researchers analysed the bone samples.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)